  Over the years health care has seen major improvement due to the introduction
information and communication technology with electronic medical prescription
being one the areas benefiting from it. Within the overall context of
protection of health care information, privacy of prescription data needs
special treatment. This paper presents an e-prescription system that addresses
some challenges pertaining to the prescription privacy protection in the
process of drug prescription. The developed system uses spread spectrum image
steganography algorithm with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) key
implementation to provide a secure means of delivering medical prescription to
the parties involved. The architecture for encoding and decoding was
implemented with an electronic health record. The software development tools
used were PHP and MySQL database management system for front end and backend
data management respectively. The designed system demonstration shows that the
synergistic combination of steganography and cryptography technologies in
medical prescription is capable of providing a secure transmission to properly
provide security for patients medical prescription.
