Multi-Level Security in Healthcare by Integrating Lattice-Based Access Control and Blockchain- Based Smart Contracts System

Abstract

Access control to patient information has become increasingly important in healthcare systems. It is vital to enhance the security of healthcare systems to avoid data loss despite the various security policies imposed by healthcare management. The issue needs to be resolved with a comprehensive secure framework, which allows users to access data according to their level of confidentiality. This article presents a solution by imposing multi-level security in e-health systems by integrating the Lattice-Based Access Control (LBAC) model and blockchain-based smart contract mechanisms. These mechanisms provide security levels in compliance with data access restrictions among users and resources while maintaining compliance security levels. By using LBAC, you can provide multilevel protection for access control restrictions, whereas smart contracts are used to ensure the transaction process in a decentralized system via an agreement between the parties. A smart contract validates every user and performs the authentication process in the envisioned model, which uses the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). In the blockchain network, the patient’s e-health details are accessed and stored as immutable blocks. Comparing the proposed scheme with existing benchmarking methods reveals that the proposed scheme preserves privacy, maintains transparency, provides an authentication process, maintains data integrity, and provides multilevel access control security. The proposed model performs better than other existing models. As a result, lattice-based access control enhances the security of e-health records.

Keywords

• Blockchain
• e-health records
• multi-level security
• lattice-based access control
• smart contracts