Smart health record management with secure NFC-enabled mobile devices

Patients with dispersed health records face the challenge of accessing readily available health history and mobility across different hospitals. It can hinder timely diagnosis and treatment, especially in the case of an emergency or for travellers. Cloud-based solutions have open challenges of interoperability and integration, higher challenges for security and privacy and may lack 24/7 support for the high availability of health history. Existing portable systems store limited health information for only a specific hospital and do not support mobility of patients across different hospitals.