Secure Health Record Sharing for Mobile Healthcare in Privacy Preserving Cloud Environment

Using mobile healthcare (mHealth) application, a patient can receive consultation from healthcare providers anywhere without visiting hospital. Thus mHealth helps in extending the healthcare services outside the hospitals. Cloud computing is proving itself crucial in healthcare by helping in storing and maintaining the patient's health record which can be accessed from any location. But patient's health record is highly vulnerable and has to be secured by encrypting before storing it in the cloud. Hence this paper encompasses the study and proposal of certain approaches applicable to mHealth application which lets patients send health records to doctors and doctors to further share the record and negotiate with specialists and also helps patients in finding friends suffering from common symptoms in privacy preserving environment ensuring the health record's integrity.