Digital ID-enabled personal healthcare data sharing among healthcare organizations

Healthcare providers lack timely access to reliable medical records of patients. This issue causes delays in emergency care, misdiagnoses, and treatment errors. This use case proposes linking personal health records (PHRs) to an individual’s digital IDs.

These records would contain identification details, medical history, medications, allergies, blood type, immunization history, diagnostic data, and legal health documents, among others. Authorized healthcare institutions can access it through a PKI framework. This framework uses a dedicated national healthcare certificate authority (CA), regional healthcare CAs, or both.

All data access requires patient consent via biometric authentication at the healthcare institution. This ensures secure access to sensitive records. The digital health records are shared through an encrypted channel. Healthcare providers access only data subsets based on their role and the patient’s consent. These transactions are subject to audit, which ensures accountability.