NDLI: Privacy Aspects of eHealth

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Slamanig, D. Stingl, C.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Med. Inf. Technol., Carinthia Univ. of Appl. Sci., Klagenfurt (Slamanig, D.; Stingl, C.)
Abstract	A central aspect of eHealth is the electronic healthcare record (EHR) which integrates all relevant medical information of a person and represents a lifelong documentation of the medical history. By virtue of their sensitive character it is crucial that medical data can only be accessed by the patient herself and persons who are directly involved in the treatment of the patient. Since eHealth portals can be accessed via the Internet, security and privacy issues arise that have to be considered carefully. Besides traditional security properties, we mainly focus on additional threats, namely the trivial disclosure attack and the statistical analysis of metadata. Thereby a disclosure attack takes place if a person enforces another person to present her EHR, e.g. during a job interview. Additionally, by applying statistical analysis on the metadata of an eHealth portal, it is possible to determine relevant information (e.g. psychological treatment) which could have negative effects on the patient. In this paper we present a concept including pseudonymization of medical data, identity management, obfuscation of metadata and anonymous authentication to prevent disclosure attacks and statistical analysis.
Starting Page	1226
Ending Page	1233
File Size	1225745
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769531021
DOI	10.1109/ARES.2008.115
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-03-04
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Statistical analysis Data security Obfuscation Medical treatment Psychology Medical services Documentation Pseudonymization History Privacy Anonymous Authentication Identity Management Internet Portals
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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