title: Facilitating and securing offline e-medicine service through image steganography.
abstract: E-medicine is a process to provide health care services to people using the Internet or any networking technology. In this Letter, a new idea is proposed to model the physical structure of the e-medicine system to better provide offline health care services. Smart cards are used to authenticate the user singly. A very unique technique is also suggested to verify the card owner's identity and to embed secret data to the card while providing patients' reports either at booths or at the e-medicine server system. The simulation results of card authentication and embedding procedure justify the proposed implementation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University , Mymensingh , Bangladesh ; Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , Bangladesh.
authors.forename: A H M
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kamal
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering , Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology , Bangladesh.
authors.forename: M Mahfuzul
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Islam
keywords: Internet; access control; biomedical communication; card authentication; card owner identity verification; cryptographic protocols; data embedding procedure; e-medicine booths; e-medicine server system; e-medicine system physical structure; electronic health records; health care; image coding; image steganography; information networks; medical image processing; networking technology; offline e-medicine service facilitation; offline e-medicine service security; offline health care services; patient reports; security of data; single user authentication; smart cards; steganography