Analysis of Masking Techniques to Find out Security and other Efficiency Issues in Healthcare Domain

Increased use of modern advanced electronic devices rapidly increased the data collection rate, most of the advanced healthcare industries today are using updated healthcare facilities with the advanced healthcare technologies to collect and process the data. Healthcare data generated by the most of the industries are in the digital format. Provisioning protection and security to the PHI is the major concern but it is very difficult to safeguard the generated data from unauthorized users or breaches. There are many advanced techniques are in use today to protect the individuals sensitive data. Data masking approach is the advanced technique that enables security provisioning of personnel health records. This paper presented the in-depth study on current healthcare security techniques and summarized the gaps in security provisioning. Conclusion part of the paper highlights the some of the acts and policies adopted by the countries to safeguard the citizens' healthcare data.