High speed cryptography architecture for health information exchange

Abstract

Since countries like India promoting their healthcare departments to be recognized as clinically advanced in the world. The worldwide recognition for the countries in the domain of healthcare is possible only when they adopt best practices like cost effective quality healthcare standards. The secure Health Information Exchange (HIE) is an important way to maintain Electronic Health Record (EHR) which improve healthcare system of a country. Development of electronic health records adds potential benefit in providing reliable access to health information and thereby improving the national healthcare system. However, the prospect of storing, transmitting, and sharing health information through electronic media raises many new challenges on information integration and protection. Protection of patient health information electronically is very crucial and need to develop systems and structures that support secure health information exchange among healthcare providers, patients and customers. The core competency of EHR and HIE is to maintain confidential and supportive relationship among patient and healthcare providers in maintaining patients health information. The confidentiality in health records can be achieved through mutual legal agreements, advocacy and technology that ensure appreciable secure information interchange. So this article also demonstrates effective practices which can be applied to the development of HIEs and presents a security architecture which can be adopted for exchange of health information to leverage common government and commercial practices in electronic health record.