karadalex / febi-stack

FHIR + Ethereum + BigchainDB + IPFS = Decentralized stack for Personal Health Records management

The F.E.B.I Stack

Introduction

F.E.B.I. stands for

• FHIR Frontend
• Ethereum
• IPFS
• BigchainDB

F.E.B.I. is a PoC application stack which uses decentralized technologies for Health Records

Decetralized stack vs Traditional web stacks

FEBI vs LEMP

Technology	FEBI	LEMP
Application Logic	Ethereum	PHP
Database	BigchainDB	MySQL
Filesystem	IPFS	Linux
Server	Browser only	Nginx

Frontend

To build the frontend you must have Yarn or npm installed, then run yarn start for a local server or yarn build to build the files to later upload in IPFS.

Blockchain TODO

Requirements

1. Metamask browser plugin
2. Ganache locally installed
3. Truffle locally installed

Running the smart contracts

• Compile contracts: truffle compile
• Migrate contracts: truffle migrate
• Test contracts: truffle test

IPFS

Requirements

• IPFS Installed https://docs.ipfs.io/introduction/install/

Instructions

1. In a terminal run ipfs daemon
2. In a second terminal run ipfs add -r ipfs/app

TODOs

1. Encrypt FHIR files before upload them in IPFS
2. Ethereum User Registry smart contract
3. Ethereum Asset hashes and signatures smart contract
4. Ethereum Permissioning and Access Control rules smart contract
5. OAuth login to EHR apps with FHIR support (e.g. Epic, Cerner sandboxes)
6. React material UI