A novel approach for securing e-health application in a cloud environment

Abstract

With the rapid increase in convergence technologies, the world is able to get lot of information through the portable mobile devices (Mumrez et al., 2019). Due to development of internet and its users across the world, there is a demand of centralized healthcare information system. Rapid increase in chronic diseases and various disease aspects, disease prevention, and various government policies of providing a better healthcare facility to its citizens steadily increased the demand for intelligent and portable mobile-based services (Sravani et al., 2017). In the past one decade, the use of smart phones has increased and the same can be utilized for e-Health services and can be used for providing personal health record (PHR), disease-related information and other self-heathcare facilities ( Jung and Chung, 2016).