BLOCKCHAIN BASED ORGAN DONATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

The current landscape of organ donation and transplantation systems presents
multifaceted challenges across various stages, including registration, donor-recipient
matching, organ removal, delivery, and transplantation. These challenges are
compounded by legal, clinical, ethical, and technical constraints, underscoring the
need for a comprehensive and efficient end-to-end solution. Such a solution is vital to
ensure fairness, transparency, and patient trust throughout the organ donation and
transplantation process. In response to these challenges, this paper proposes a novel
approach: a private Ethereum blockchain-based system designed to manage organ
donation and transplantation in a fully decentralized, secure, and auditable manner.
By leveraging blockchain technology, we aim to address key pain points in the
existing systems, such as data integrity, transparency, and privacy concerns.
Central to our proposed solution are smart contracts, which facilitate automated and
secure execution of agreements between multiple parties involved in organ donation
and transplantation. These smart contracts are meticulously developed and
accompanied by six algorithms tailored to address specific challenges in the organ
donation process. We provide comprehensive details on the implementation, testing,
and validation of these smart contracts and algorithms, ensuring their robustness and
efficacy in real-world scenarios. Additionally, we conduct thorough performance
evaluations, including privacy, security, and confidentiality analyses, to assess the
effectiveness of our solution.
Furthermore, our paper contributes to the existing body of research by offering a
comparative analysis of our blockchain-based solution with traditional organ donation
and transplantation systems. Through this comparison, we aim to highlight the advantages and limitations of our approach, shedding light on its potential impact on
patient experience, operational efficiency, and trustworthiness. Finally, to foster
transparency and collaboration within the research community, we make the source
code of our smart contracts publicly available on Github. By sharing our findings and
codebase, we invite further scrutiny, refinement, and adoption of blockchain
technology in organ donation and transplantation management.