Cloud-based secure smartcard healthcare monitoring and tracking system

As technological advances make strides into many fields, including that of healthcare, the onus is on us to take advantage of these. Technology has been adopted by the healthcare industry since long; however, it retains a secondary role as far as patient data management and connectivity is concerned. The aim of this paper is to devise a novel architecture and framework to make available the patient data in a concise, secure and accurate manner. Our architecture is based on a secure cloud system as backend, using smartcard as authenticators. Our proposed architecture consists of: i) A secure hybrid cloud system, based on the open-source Eucalyptus software ii) A secure smartcard called MediCard to securely authenticate users iii) An Android application that serves as a user-friendly interface to the patient data, from the perspective of the healthcare provider as well the patient. iii) A website that allows easy management of the patient data such as medical reports, prescriptions etc. by the healthcare provider. These three components allow a wide variety of applications that can be undertaken by this healthcare system, which are detailed ahead. This model seeks to help the healthcare providers such as hospitals, physicians, diagnostic labs, and chemists by electronically managing all the patient data they need access to in a secure, and efficient manner.