Literature Review on Access Control for Personal Health Records

Personal Health Records are used in hospitals to maintain data and details of the patients. These records are really important and contain the health history of the patients. In case of any malpractice, the health records of the patients might be mishandled. Here we have surveyed projects and papers that are related to Personal Health Records. These records of the patients were first in hand-written documents later they were converted to electronic records. These electronic records also have less security and they are stored in the local server they are then made a little secured and can be stored in the cloud. This survey explores us about the technologies and techniques that are used in the literature to keep the documents of the patients. These patient documents holds the personal health records in a more secure manner.