Secure-Donation: A Blockchain-Based Secure and Privacy-Enhanced Healthcare Monetary Donation Management System

Abstract

Monetary donations play a crucial role in the healthcare industry by serving as financial contributions made by individuals, organizations, or institutions to support various healthcare initiatives such as funding medical research, enhancing patient care, expanding healthcare facilities, and assisting underprivileged individuals in accessing healthcare services. The primary objective of these donations is to advance the overall well-being and development of the healthcare sector, ultimately leading to improved healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Managing monetary donations in the healthcare industry is a critical task, with traditional systems facing disadvantages such as a lack of transparency, security vulnerabilities, and privacy concerns. To address these challenges, this paper presents SECURE-DONATION, a blockchain-based healthcare monetary donation management system that ensures enhanced security and privacy. The system incorporates various advanced techniques, including multi-factor authentication, ECC-ChaCha20 cryptography, image watermarking, steganography, HmacBLAKE2 hash generation, and patient consent-based access control. These techniques collectively safeguard sensitive medical data and enhance the privacy of donor-recipient interactions. Experimental results validate the efficiency and effectiveness of SECURE-DONATION. Hash generation is performed quickly, taking only 23 milliseconds for 100 blocks. The ECC-ChaCha20 cryptography used in SECURE-DONATION outperforms other cryptography combinations, demonstrating encryption and decryption times of 0.005 seconds for 96-bit data. These results highlight the system's efficiency in securely sharing medical data and images. The experimental evaluation confirms that SECURE-DONATION is a reliable and robust solution for secure monetary donation management in healthcare environments.