• Gagandeep kaur Randhawa
• Damandeep Kaur

As technology grows day by day, wearable electrocardiogram monitoring devices also increases. A lot of patient confidential data is monitored and shared worldwide. There is need to protect patient’s secret information. Several techniques have been developed where Electrocardiogram signals can be utilized to hide the patient secret information. The whole process is focused on a) to provide encryption to the patient data and b) to recover the original ECG signal.HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and accountability Act), governess that patient transmitted information must be safe to any kind of threats, to protect its confidentiality and privacy.This paper review distinct methods of ECG steganography techniques to hide patient secret information

Electrocardiogram, steganography, watermarking.

"Applying Electrocardiogram as a CoverSignal toHide Patient’s Confidential Information: A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.589-595, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809594.pdf

"Applying Electrocardiogram as a CoverSignal toHide Patient’s Confidential Information: A Review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp589-595, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809594.pdf