Using PROV and Blockchain to Achieve Health Data Provenance

Provenance is the foundation of data quality, usually implemented by automatically capturing the trace of data manipulation over space and time. In healthcare, provenance becomes critical since it encompasses both clinical research and patient safety. In this proposal we aim at exploiting and innovating existing health IT deployments by enabling data provenance queries for all kind of clinical information from anywhere.The proposed technical solution exploits the novelty and the peer-to-peer fashion of the blockchain technology and smart-contracts to instrument international standards such as IHE and HL7 with a provenance system robust to fraudulences