Secure e-health cloud framework for patients' EHR storage and sharing for Indian Government healthcare model

Abstract

Medical field is experiencing a huge paradigm shift from traditional healthcare model to electronic healthcare model. Cloud computing facilitates healthcare industry to provide continuous, on-demand services anytime, anywhere. Cloud computing facilitates management but it is also challenging to provide privacy and security in cloud computing. In this paper we propose a secure, privacy-preserving health cloud which allows data exchange between hospitals, healthcare centres, doctors and patients. To accomplish security and privacy, we implement homomorphic encryption (HE), which allows computations to be carried out on encrypted data without even decrypting them. To achieve secure sharing of data among authorized entities, proxy re-encryption (PRE) scheme is combined with homomorphic encryption. Our secure e-health cloud framework achieves performance improvement compared to the Paillier cryptosystem.

Keywords

• health cloud
• homomorphic encryption
• primary healthcare centre
• health data analytics
• health record exchange
• cloud security.