Adopting Formal Verification and Model-Based Testing Techniques for Validating a Blockchain-based Healthcare Records Sharing System

Rateb Jabbar, Moez Krichen, Noora Fetais, Kamel Barkaoui

2020

Abstract

The Electronic Health Records (EHR) sharing system is the modern tool for delivering efficient healthcare to patients. Its functions include tracking of therapies, monitoring of the treatment effectiveness, prediction of outcomes throughout the patient’s lifespan, and detection of human errors. For all the stakeholders, integrity and interoperability of the care continuum are paramount. Yet, its implementation is challenging due to the heterogeneity of healthcare information systems, security threats, and the enormousness of EHR data. To overcome these challenges, this work proposes BiiMED: a Blockchain framework for Enhancing Data Interoperability and Integrity regarding EHR-sharing. This solution is innovative as it contains an access management system allowing the exchange of EHRs between different medical providers and a decentralized Trusted Third Party Auditor (TTPA) for ensuring data integrity. This paper also discusses two validation techniques for enhancing the quality and correctness of the proposed solution: Formal Verification and Model-Based Techniques. The first one checks the correctness of a mathematical model describing the behavior of the given system prior to the implementation. The second technique derives test suites from the adopted model, performs them, and assesses the correctness.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jabbar R., Krichen M., Fetais N. and Barkaoui K. (2020). Adopting Formal Verification and Model-Based Testing Techniques for Validating a Blockchain-based Healthcare Records Sharing System.In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-423-7, pages 261-268. DOI: 10.5220/0009592102610268

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis20,
author={Rateb Jabbar and Moez Krichen and Noora Fetais and Kamel Barkaoui},
title={Adopting Formal Verification and Model-Based Testing Techniques for Validating a Blockchain-based Healthcare Records Sharing System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2020},
pages={261-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009592102610268},
isbn={978-989-758-423-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Adopting Formal Verification and Model-Based Testing Techniques for Validating a Blockchain-based Healthcare Records Sharing System
SN - 978-989-758-423-7
AU - Jabbar R.
AU - Krichen M.
AU - Fetais N.
AU - Barkaoui K.
PY - 2020
SP - 261
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0009592102610268