A Review on Privacy and Security Issues in Healthcare System

Abstract

— Hospitals in India as well as athwart the globe have moved or are in the course of moving away from paper-based labor-intensive information processing to Hospital Information System (HIS) as well as Electronic Health Record (EHR) with the intention of endowing with operational and well-organized healthcare services in a flawless fashion. Extensive exploitation of digital records in healthcare field has offered plausibly inestimable assistance by instantaneous entrance to medical records virtually from everywhere in the world. Relating Health Information System to the network and building Electronic Health Record accessible over the Internet locate the medical records defenseless to security intimidations and menaces the privacy of patients. Information security along with privacy is an apprehension of mounting magnitude in the healthcare zone. The championship of digital medical records, provider consolidation, amplified regulation, as well as the escalating necessity for material sandwiched amid consumers, suppliers, and financiers, all signal the prerequisite for enhanced information security. Consequently, in this day and age the defiant stare of promotion has been transferred interrogating on the security and privacy of those records which are engendered from IoT maneuvers and being amassed in cloud milieu. We unfalteringly review the research work on health data privacy and security, issued in information schemes and non-information schemes together with medical informatics, law, communal healthiness, , and widespread trade magazines and hearsays. We present the security challenges in the cloud for eHealth domain and recently proposed solutions. Into the bargain, we formulate an exhaustive reading on the prevailing elucidations to security as well as privacy issues, along with the uncluttered encounters as well as exploration disputes for the forthcoming efforts.