A data-sharing scheme that supports multi-keyword search for electronic medical records.
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SUBMITTER: Niu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7790426 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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A data-sharing scheme that supports multi-keyword search for electronic medical records.
Niu Shufen S Liu Wenke W Han Song S Fang Lizhi L
PloS one 20210107 1
As cloud storage technology develops, data sharing of cloud-based electronic medical records (EMRs) has become a hot topic in the academia and healthcare sectors. To solve the problem of secure search and sharing of EMR in cloud platforms, an EMR data-sharing scheme supporting multi-keyword search is proposed. The proposed scheme combines searchable encryption and proxy re-encryption technologies to perform keyword search and achieve secure sharing of encrypted EMR. At the same time, the scheme ...[more]
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