Managing Secure Personal Mobile Health Information

Medical errors may cause serious public health problems and threaten the safety of the patients. Part of the errors is due to mistakes in the medical record or incomplete medical record which may trigger tragic consequences. In this paper, we present an application that manages securely personal health information on a mobile platform and keeps all the medical records of a patient in digital format. Patients are able to access their medical record at their convenience and the confidentiality of information is guaranteed. Patients are also able to share their personal health record with their respective doctor in a secure way. The application consists of several modules: incognito, access control, privacy control, authentication, encryption, multifactor authentication and emergency control. An anonymous database is created by removing all the identifier of a patient before the health record is stored in the database. This provides an extra layer of protection to the patient’s privacy. In particular, our proposed application introduces the multifactor authentication and emergency control modules which provides a multi-layered defense authentication and emergency case handler respectively. Thus, the proposed application allows the patient to assess their records conveniently and securely, and helps them in emergency situations. As such, the application is suitable for cases involving large number of patients and emergency situations such as in Hajj healthcare management.