AN APPROACH TO MITIGATE THE PRIVACY ISSUES IN SMARTPHONE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THROUGH VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY

Smartphone Healthcare Systems are the immerging pervasive technology which provides the healthcare services at any location through mobile phones. It contributes to access the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from and to the practitioners, researchers, patients, pathologist and doctors to treating their illness. The emerging technologies help to ease the treatme nt through discussing the doctors at any location according to the availability of time schedule. These EMR contains the private information of the patients. Therefore exchanging the EMR’s must be secured at network as well as storage medium. However, numb er of privacy issues poses challenge to the Smartphone healthcare systems. Most of these records are available at the storage of the electronic device, common accessible database or shared cloud. Exchanging and storing of these data must be accessed secure ly and privacy should not be leaked without knowing the patients. In this paper a Visual cryptography based approach for Smartphone healthcare system has been proposed and implemented to preserve the privacy and ensuring the authentic accessing the EMR thr ough the knowledge of patients. Authentication is based on the image key se lected by the authentic parties .