An exhaustive survey on security and privacy issues in Healthcare 4.0

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• privacy is described as to keep an individual’s healthcare information protected from unauthorized access

• But, the massive usage of smartphones for healthcare monitoring is vulnerable to the privacy of patient data

• patients are more worried about their health-related data privacy and they feel quite insecure about the stealing of personal information by third-party cloud service providers

• researchers across the world have suggested the use of an access control mechanism and for security, suggested the encryption standards

• security and privacy are the primary concern of the healthcare industry because of a tremendous amount of health data accessed and transmitted over the Internet

• Privacy means only authorized users can access the health information of the patient and in which situation patient data might be accessed, utilized, and disclosed to a third-party