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Healthcare App @ ethwaterloo2017

Development

npm install -g truffle // Version 3.0.5+ required.
npm install -g ethereumjs-testrpc
npm install github:storj/node-libstorj --save

Project bootstrapped with Truffle box https://github.com/truffle-box/react-uport-box

Start developing with npm run start

You must also run the backend server located here: https://github.com/diofeher/healthcare-backend

Mechanism Design

As per the talks at the conference, its important to architect from a mechanism design perspective. This means identifying a few things about our dApp.

Design Goals

Reduction of Costs for Insurance-Provider-Patient Ecosystem.

Design Challenges

Privacy Preservation

We are assuming that patients are ok with releasing their data to providers

Interest Group Incentives

Patients

  • Pay less co-pay
  • Sacrifice privacy (give more data)
  • Revieve more accurate diagnosis for walk-in clinics, healthcare while travelling

Care Providers

  • Less insurance premiums
  • Pay more percentage of co-pay
  • Less litigation costs
  • More operational efficiency (less duplicated tests)

Medical Malpractice Insurance Providers

  • Less exposure to risk
  • Less operating costs

Patients Insurance

  • Less risk
  • Less operating costs

System Architecture

Data Storage

Data storage is handled off-chain on a mechanism like Storj, or possibly in future, IPFS.

Data Types

Data stored will strictly be files, since these can be hashed and be transferred from provider to provider. Critically, the integrity of these files can be compared at any point in future history by re-hashing the data and comparing the one stored on chain.

Medical Transaction Structure

  • Doctors public key
  • Patients public key
  • Hash of file

Together, the hash of these three produce a signature which proves that the patient provided authorization for the file to a provider

Medical Record Example JSON

{ "name": "John Doe", "height": 185, "weight": 85, "allergies": [ "peanut", "soy" ] }

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