Centralized Personal Health Records (PHR) are mutable with compromised security as it may lead to a single point of failure. Confidentiality, protection and security are the common issues in clinical record frameworks. Specific security and protection schemes are being used to secure clinical records. Accordingly, using the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized PHR can be maintained to allow patients to access their records without delay. Moreover, a Kademlia-based distributed hash table provides fault tolerance and enables patients to keep track of their medical history. However, a significant issue in IPFS is data availability. It is only available on the web until users or hosts of the network request each peer, later it leads to a permanent loss of data. We propose an architecture that aims to provide faster retrieval and constant PHR availability using Blockchain and IPFS. The results show that an optimal node is selected in each iteration amongst all the available adjacent nodes.
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