One of the Internet of Things (IoT) security issues is the secure sharing and granular management of data access. This study recommends a feature-based encryption scheme with a hidden access structure for medical IoT data security. While establishing fine-grained access control of ciphertext...

Doctor-patient relationship is a crux of medical care delivery infrastructure. It is based on in egalitarian notions where power and authority is vested with physicians. However, with the changes in socio-economic and politico-legal milieu this sacred covenant is altering. This appears to be...

In Southeast Asia, medical tourism has taken off in a big way since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, in particular, have developed deliberate marketing strategies to attract foreign patients. This paper examines the development of medical tourism in Malaysia,...

This paper examines the impact of plan type, medical homes, and income on use of health care services. It also examines differences in the use of health services within the CDHP population. Data from the 2005-2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey and the 2008-2012...