Open AccessFacilitating and securing offline e‐medicine service through image steganography
Author(s) -
Kamal A.H.M.,
Islam M. Mahfuzul
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
healthcare technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.45
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 2053-3713
DOI - 10.1049/htl.2013.0026
Subject(s) - computer science , smart card , computer security , authentication (law) , the internet , steganography , credit card , service (business) , process (computing) , identity (music) , health care , world wide web , embedding , internet privacy , multimedia , artificial intelligence , operating system , physics , economy , acoustics , economics , payment , economic growth
E‐medicine is a process to provide health care services to people using the Internet or any networking technology. In this Letter, a new idea is proposed to model the physical structure of the e‐medicine system to better provide offline health care services. Smart cards are used to authenticate the user singly. A very unique technique is also suggested to verify the card owner's identity and to embed secret data to the card while providing patients' reports either at booths or at the e‐medicine server system. The simulation results of card authentication and embedding procedure justify the proposed implementation.