Issues and Challenges in Securing eHealth Systems

Bai, Yan; Dai, Li-Rong; Li, Juan

doi:10.4018/ijehmc.2014010101

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“…The availability of e-Health systems is also of great importance because denial of medical service may jeopardize a patient's personal life [14]. The developed application contains certainly confidential and sensible data; the general concept should be designed so that it is safe and secure.…”

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confidence: 99%

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E-Health Information System: Ensuring a High Level of Availability by Implementing Replication, Backup & Restoration Procedures

malhi¹,

Ahd²,

Mokhtari³

et al. 2017

JCC

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Abstract:In a previous study, we suggested an information system to store, manage and treat millions of gathered patient's information. The application is able to fulfill the most important criterions, mainly measurement, monitoring, guidance, Data management and their analysis. The developed e-Health system can be accessed via the Internet. Availability, confidentiality and security issues arise that have to be considered carefully. The highest level of availability of these services is required. The main objective of this paper is to improve and enhance the both aspects of an information system: availability and reliability. The information system should be reachable constantly to satisfy the professional requirements. Today, the new technologies could help to resolve some infrastructure and connection problems. Connected machines are increasingly being introduced into safety-critical health care systems. Concretely in this study, we introduced replication, backup and restoration procedures to obtain a safe and continuous data management system in order to guarantee a highly reliable concept. By integrating the new technologies, we profited from the innovative connection utility-Internet of things -, which offers several possibilities to ensure the continued and desirable service. By implementing a distributed information system, we were able to increase the percentage of uptime to 99.8% (down time less than 20 mins/week). The vulnerability and the penetration tests were also successful and demonstrate the efficiency of the implemented redundancy, replication and restoration procedures.

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“…They need to be guaranteed during a transmission between patients and clinical centers through the insecure internet, a secure authentication schema is thus essential to safeguard data integrity, confidentiality, and availability for the telecare medicine system [14].…”

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E-Health Information System: Ensuring a High Level of Availability by Implementing Replication, Backup & Restoration Procedures

malhi¹,

Ahd²,

Mokhtari³

et al. 2017

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“…who work together to provide patient care. The exchange of information between these practitioners must retain the information as it is provided by ensuring the integrity of the information and the security of data exchanged (Bai, Dai, & Li, 2014;Ryan, 2006). An error that comes from the exchange of this information can lead to the death of the patient or privacy issue; • Several standards that are created (DICOM, ICD, HL7, OpenEHR, etc.)…”

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Study of Healthcare Annotation Systems

Chehab

Kalboussi

Kacem

2021

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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The annotation practice is an almost daily activity used by healthcare professionals (PHC) to analyze patients' records, collaborate, share knowledge, and communicate. These annotations are generated within a healthcare cycle. Similarly, this cycle represents the life cycle of annotations in the patient record. The exponential increase in the number of medical annotation systems made the choice of a system by a PHC difficult, in a well-defined context (biology, radiology) and according to his/her needs to the functionalities offered by these tools. Therefore, the authors propose two taxonomies to distinguish annotation tools developed by industry and academia over the last two decades. The first classification provides an external vision based on five generic criteria. The second classification is an internal vision that gives us an idea about the functionalities offered by these systems. Finally, these unified and integrated classifications criteria are used to organize and observe the limitation of 50 medical annotation tool systems.

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“…Security is a key research topic when talking about eHealth applications. In this sense, aspects such as confidentiality, integrity or availability must be taken into account [ 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 ] as they have to be tackled by management platforms at operation time. Several threats have been identified in each of the previous security aspects.…”

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A Component-Based Approach for Securing Indoor Home Care Applications

Agirre

Armentia

Estévez

et al. 2017

Sensors

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eHealth systems have adopted recent advances on sensing technologies together with advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) in order to provide people-centered services that improve the quality of life of an increasingly elderly population. As these eHealth services are founded on the acquisition and processing of sensitive data (e.g., personal details, diagnosis, treatments and medical history), any security threat would damage the public’s confidence in them. This paper proposes a solution for the design and runtime management of indoor eHealth applications with security requirements. The proposal allows applications definition customized to patient particularities, including the early detection of health deterioration and suitable reaction (events) as well as security needs. At runtime, security support is twofold. A secured component-based platform supervises applications execution and provides events management, whilst the security of the communications among application components is also guaranteed. Additionally, the proposed event management scheme adopts the fog computing paradigm to enable local event related data storage and processing, thus saving communication bandwidth when communicating with the cloud. As a proof of concept, this proposal has been validated through the monitoring of the health status in diabetic patients at a nursing home.

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Issues and Challenges in Securing eHealth Systems

Cited by 16 publications

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E-Health Information System: Ensuring a High Level of Availability by Implementing Replication, Backup & Restoration Procedures

E-Health Information System: Ensuring a High Level of Availability by Implementing Replication, Backup & Restoration Procedures

Study of Healthcare Annotation Systems

A Component-Based Approach for Securing Indoor Home Care Applications

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