Title: Design and implementation of a secure cloud-based personal health record system using ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption

Authors: Changji Wang; Xuan Liu; Wentao Li

Addresses: School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangdong Province Information Security Key Laboratory, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Research Center of Software Technology for Information Service, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 501631, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangdong Province Information Security Key Laboratory, Guangzhou, 510006, China ' School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Guangdong Province Information Security Key Laboratory, Guangzhou, 510006, China

Abstract: There is an acceleration of adoption of cloud computing among healthcare enterprises. In this paper, we design and develop a patient-centric, cloud-based personal health record system based on open-source Indivo project. The developed cloud-based personal health record (PHR) system enables patients to securely store and share their personal health records in a flexible way by using ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption mechanism.

Keywords: personal health records; PHR; cloud computing; ciphertext policy; attribute-based encryption; ABE; open source Indivo; healthcare technology; patient records; patient record security; cryptography; e-healthcare; electronic healthcare.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2013.056381

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2013 Vol.7 No.5, pp.389 - 399

Received: 21 Jan 2013
Accepted: 07 Apr 2013

Published online: 31 Mar 2014 *

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