Personal health records (PHR) are a new type of health information exchange that allows PHR possessor to share their personal health details with a wide range of people, inclusive of healthcare professionals, close relative and best friends. PHR details are typically externalization and kept in third-party cloud platforms, reducing PHR possessor of the load of managing their PHR details while improving health data accessibility. To ensure the secrecy of personal health records maintained in public clouds, encrypting the health details prior to uploading on the cloud is a typical practice. The secrecy of the information from the cloud is guaranteed since the cloud does not know the keys used to encrypt the information. Elliptic curve cryptography encryption is used to attain secure and systematic way to interact PHRs with re-encryption server. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.