CMED: Cloud based medical system framework for rural health monitoring in developing countries

摘要

Healthcare is one of the basic human rights, but providing proper healthcare in rural remote areas of developing countries has always been a challenging task. Telemonitoring has brought some relief with limitations due to accessing patient's health information by healthcare workers and specialists, but merging it with cloud services can be an optimal solution. This proposed framework, CMED (Cloud based MEDical system), is a setup consisting of both healthcare center and a portable healthcare service with a Community Health Worker(CHW), which will sort the patients into three different categories healthy, alarming and emergency. Upon failing to diagnose a unique problem, it will suggest and contact a specialist doctor and provide suggestions. The privacy and confidentiality of patient's health information will be secured by Identity Based Encryption. In this paper, a framework has been presented for smart and secure healthcare monitoring system for rural under privileged people in developing countries. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.