Abstract: “E-health services are subjected to same security threats as other online services. This paper emphasizes the requirement of a strong framework in e-health domain for reliable delivery of medical data over the internet. The paper recognizes current and future technological solutions in this regard. The solutions includes the authorization and authentication techniques and cryptography for the data transmission . Recent initiatives in Indian scenarios have also been analyzed. It further suggests the application of SOAP for building a secured framework.”

Keywords: authorization and authentication, cryptography, SOAP.