Securing Sharable Electronic Health Records on Cloud Storage

Due to the potential of data breaches and the resultant compromise of patient's sensitive data, medical organizations find it difficult to secure the data stored on cloud storage. Thus, storing and sharing data on cloud presents numerous security issues related to authentication, identity management, access control, trust management etc. Electronic Health Records (EHR) is of the paramount importance in the domain of research as the researchers use these data/reports to analyze and find new diseases. EHR data stored on cloud contain sensitive information about the patient and cannot be disclosed to unauthorized users. Thus, sharing sensitive information is still remains unexplored. Therefore, this article proposes a novel framework to store and share the data in a secured manner using Attribute Based Encryption (ABE). Storing and sharing EHR data on the cloud allows the research community to analyze various patient reports, which intern helps pharmacy and other healthcare-companies to expand their business.