E-health care data sharing into the cloud based on deduplication and file hierarchical encryption

Abstract

E-Healthcare system plays a major role in the society. It monitors the health condition and helps in giving appropriate medical treatments. This system aims at gathering and storing patient's details and sharing health related information. It also has high legitimate concerns about patient's privacy and information security. This system minimizes the infrastructural barriers for the developing nations. It also extends healthcare systems to the remote and isolated areas which has limited access to medical technologies, remote health services are provided through telecommunications. Quality of the service and security are added advantage to the system. They collect the real time personal information (PHI) and health problems from patients and transmit them to the healthcare provider for the authorized physicians to decide on the corresponding treatment. They send the PHI in terms of text and image to the cloud, and also the other personal queries related to their medical history. In cloud computing, collected PHI should match the physicians experience to judge the state of the patient and unfortunately, delegating both storage and computation to the untrusted entity would bring a series of security. This is where deduplication comes into play. It is a technique for eliminating duplicate copies of data, and has been widely used in cloud storage to reduce storage space and upload bandwidth. Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been a preferred encryption technology to solve the challenging problem of security during data sharing in cloud computing. For every file a separate key will be provided, which is to be decrypted for using the file further.