Secured Personal Health Record in Cloud using Attribute based Encryption

Personal Health Records (PHR) is web based application to maintain and manage lifelong health information of a patient in a private, secure, and confidential environment. The PHR maintain health related data and the application software to view and analyse separately deployed in the PHR system. A patient can include information from a variety of source such as radiology image, X-ray, CT scanning etc. After uploading their medical data to PHR patients can access them anytime anywhere in the world .To achieve security of PHR the Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) is used to encrypt the data before outsourcing it. The authorized users can access PHR for their personal use or professional purposes.