SCT: Secured Cloud based Telemedicine

Telemedicine started its journey and successful deployment over several decades. But still it could not mark a remarkable contribution to neither rural nor urban areas. People realized its impact when it saved a life from becoming an extinct. Telemedicine connects patient and specialized doctors remotely and also allows them to share the sensitive medical records. Irrespective of the mode of data exchange, all types of media are vulnerable to security and performance issues. Remote data exchange during an emergency situation should not be delayed and at the same time should not be altered. While transit, a single bit change could be interpreted differently at the other end. Hence telemedicine comes with all the challenges of performance and security issues. Delay, cost and scalability are the pressing performance factors whereas integrity, availability and accountability are the security issues need to be addressed. This paper lights up on security without compromising quality of service. Telemedicine is on track from standard PSTN, wireless Mobile phones and satellites. Secure Cloud based Telemedicine (SCT) uses Cloud which could free the people from administrative and accounting burdens.