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Abstract

Over the last few years, the Internet of things has gained more and more space in various activities sectors, including the health sector. In fact, the Telemedicine has benefited from this new concept by using its various kinds of special devices and tools which facilitate to provide distance healthcare services, and thus, solve many problems notably for the elderly or person in remote areas. However, the transfer of sensitive medical data is threatened by falsification, while its security and privacy are crucial in healthcare. The main contribution of this paper is to propose a secure telemedicine scheme that supports different types of medical data. The scheme ensures, on the one hand, communication confidentiality by means of a combination between heavyweight and lightweight cryptography, and on the other hand, data integrity by using network steganography and the cryptographic hash function RIPMD160.