ashwanikrrsinha / blockchain_for_ehr

Web based ,Patient Centric Electronic Health Record Manager using Blockchain techniques.

Electronic Health Record Manager

Implementation of web based software for handling electronic health records using Flask, html, CSS , bootstrap and mongodb to show high level implementation of blockchain.

Html+CSS+Bootstrap+JS has been utilized to create an intuitive website that allow users to login as admin, doctor or patient and perform their specific niche operations. The information collected to create a new medical record is based on the key points provided by the Ministry of Health and family welfare.

Blockchain implementation (Backend): Flask, the micro framework in python is utilized for the implementation.

Information collected is stored in the cloud server (MongoDB) and a block is created with hash based on attributes of the medical record and it also holds the previous hash and timestamp of creation.

Checkout the website at : https://patrec.azurewebsites.net/

Demo login

PATIENT

Username : PAT001

Password : password

DOCTOR

Username : DOC1

Password : password

Use case diagram

Patient Record Access Schema

Guardian Mode Access Schema

Patient Data Blocks

Patient Record Blocks

Steps to run the project

Requirements : Python 3.x version

1. Clone the project to local directory

   git clone https://github.com/antoprince001/Blockchain_for_EHR.git

2. Change directory to cloned project

   cd Blockchain_for_EHR

3. Install the pip module dependencies (Preferably in virtual enivironment)

   pip install - r requirements.txt

4. Then, run the main app.py file

   python app.py

5. If you want to configure your own mongodb connection

   • Create an account in MongoDB Cloud atlas
   • Create a cluster and retrieve the connection url
   • Update the connection URL in Line 61 of app.py file

6. View the website live at http://localhost:5000/