Scalable and Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing Using Attribute-Based Encryption

• Published in: IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 131 - 143
• Main Authors: Li, Ming, Yu, Shucheng, Zheng, Yao, Ren, Kui, Lou, Wenjing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2013; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access control; attribute-based encryption; Cloud computing; data privacy; Dynamics; Encryption; fine-grained access control; Health; Medical services; Patients; Personal health; Personal health records; Privacy; Scalability; Security; Servers

Personal health record (PHR) is an emerging patient-centric model of health information exchange, which is often outsourced to be stored at a third party, such as cloud providers. However, there have been wide privacy concerns as personal health information could be exposed to those third party serv...