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. 2025 Aug 13;15(1):29682.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-14930-z.

Enhancing privacy in IoT-based healthcare using provable partitioned secure blockchain principle and encryption

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Enhancing privacy in IoT-based healthcare using provable partitioned secure blockchain principle and encryption

C S Madhumathi et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has attained significant interest recently, particularly in the medical field due to the quick development of IoT devices. Medical related data contains a significant volume of personal information, and it is crucial to maintain privacy. As medical information becomes increasingly electronic in the era of big data, securely and accurately storing medical information is critical. However, the heterogeneity of information systems poses a significant challenge to their sharing. Moreover, medical data typically comprises sensitive information, and sharing it can potentially lead to breaches of personal privacy. Data sharing is a significant concern in healthcare because of privacy leakage and security issues. To combat this issue, this paper introduces the prediction and Provable Partitioned Secure Block Chain Principle (PPSBCP) technique is used to secure healthcare data sharing. Initially, in the healthcare data analysis phase, the Preprocessing and normalization are carried out by Z-score normalized for analysing the healthcare-sensitive margins. The SSIR (Sensitive Spectral Impact Rate) method is applied to find the sensitive records. Based on the impact margins, the Binomial Quadratic Sensitive Data Prediction (BQSDP) method is applied to categorize the sensitive and non-sensitive information. In the blockchain phase, create a Hash Index Policy (HIP) to encrypt the data using a Foldable Blockchain Encryption Standard (FBES). The Master Node Handover Authentication Policy (MNHAP) is applied to verify the private key in the data safety. The Distributed Hyper Ledger Mechanism (DHLM) is applied to make the chain transaction principle. The proposed system accomplishes high performance in security by achieving the parameters in verification and validation as well as compared to the existing systems.

Keywords: Authentication policy; Blockchain; Data categorization; Data security; Hyper Ledger mechanism; Internet of Things; Partitioned secure blockchain principle; Privacy protection; Z-score normalization.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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Description of secure data sharing.
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Dataset feature collection.
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Flowchart diagram for Z-score normalization.
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Baseline architecture of ANN.
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Chain of blocks.
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The AES encryption key flowchart diagram.
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Performance matrics.
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Analysis of sensitivity performance.
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Analysis of specificity performance.
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Analysis of false detection performance.
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Analysis of security performance.
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Analysis of classification detection accuracy.

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