A platform for secure monitoring and sharing of generic health data in the Cloud
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Author(s)
Thilakanathan, Danan
Chen, Shiping
Nepal, Surya
Calvo, Rafael
Alem, Leila
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The growing need for the remote caring of patients at home combined with the ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices due to their ubiquitous nature has resulted in many apps being developed to enable mobile telecare. The Cloud, in combination with mobile technologies has enabled doctors to conveniently monitor and assess a patient’s health while the patient is at the comfort of their own home. This demands sharing of health information between healthcare teams such as doctors and nurses in order to provide better and safer care of patients. However, the sharing of health information introduces privacy and security issues which may conflict with HIPAA standards. In this paper, we attempt to address the issues of privacy and security in the domain of mobile telecare and Cloud computing. We first demonstrate a telecare application that will allow doctors to remotely monitor patients via the Cloud. We then use this system as a basis to showcase our model that will allow patients to share their health information with other doctors, nurses or medical professional in a secure and confidential manner. The key features of our model include the ability to handle large data sizes and efficient user revocation.
Date Issued
2014-06-01
Date Acceptance
2013-09-05
Citation
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2014, 35, pp.102-113
ISSN
0167-739X
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
102
End Page
113
Journal / Book Title
Future Generation Computer Systems
Volume
35
Copyright Statement
© 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X13001908?via%3Dihub
Subjects
0803 Computer Software
0805 Distributed Computing
0806 Information Systems
Distributed Computing
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2013-09-21