Distributed Ledger Technology in Healthcare: Enhancing Governance and Performance in a Decentralized Ecosystem.

[EN] This paper evaluates the technical feasibility of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) within the healthcare ecosystem, with a focus on the use of Corda DLT to enhance governance and performance in a decentralized ecosystem, ensuring data integrity, security, and trustworthiness. Key attributes...

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Autores: Minango, Juan, Carvajal Mora, Henry, Zambrano, Marcelo, Orozco Garzón, Nathaly, Pérez-Carrasco, Francisco José|||0000-0001-9254-9962
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/230277
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/230277
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Distributed ledger technology
Blockchain
Peer-to-peer
Throughput
Decentralized networks
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Resumo:[EN] This paper evaluates the technical feasibility of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) within the healthcare ecosystem, with a focus on the use of Corda DLT to enhance governance and performance in a decentralized ecosystem, ensuring data integrity, security, and trustworthiness. Key attributes examined include the guarantee of data integrity, ensuring that transmitted data remain unaltered; authenticity through the implementation of digital signatures and certificates; confidentiality achieved via secure peer-to-peer communication accessible only to authorized parties; and traceability and auditing mechanisms that enable tracking of information changes and accountability. To validate these features, a Corda Distributed Application (CorDapp) was developed to manage the core logic of the healthcare ecosystem. The CorDapp was deployed across nodes and executed within the Corda network. Its performance was assessed using metrics such as throughput, latency, CPU usage, and memory consumption in both local and cloud network environments. Results demonstrate the feasibility of using Corda DLT technology in healthcare, effectively addressing critical requirements such as integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, traceability, and auditing while maintaining satisfactory performance across diverse deployment scenarios.