TY  - JOUR
A1  - Omotosho, Adebayo
A1  - Emuoyibofarhe, Justice
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - Securing e-prescription from medical identity theft using steganography and antiphishing techniques
JF  - Journal of applied security research
N2  - Drug prescription is among the health care process that usually makes references to the patients’ medical and insurance information among other personal data, because this information is very vital and delicate, it should be adequately protected from identity thieves. This article aims at securing Electronic Prescription (EP) in order to minimize patient’s data theft and foster patients’ trust of EP system.
This paper presents a steganography and antiphishing technique for preventing medical identity theft in EP. The proposed EP system design focused on the security features in the prescriber and dispensers’ modules of EP by ensuring the prescriber sends the prescription of the patient in a safe manner and to the right dispenser without the interference of fake third parties. Hexadecimal steganography image system is used to cover and secure the
sent prescription details. Malicious electronic dispensing system is prevented through an authentication technique where a dispenser uses a captcha together with a one-time password, and the web server encrypted token for prescriber’s device authentication. The steganography system is evaluated using Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR).
The system implementation results showed that steganography
and antiphishing techniques are capable of providing a secure EP systems.
KW  - Electronic prescription
KW  - one-time password
KW  - steganography
KW  - phishing
KW  - medical identity theft
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/19361610.2017.1315788
SN  - 1936-1610
SN  - 1936-1629
VL  - 12
SP  - 447
EP  - 461
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -