Design and application of a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant privacy framework for pervasive healthcare. (30th April 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Malladi, Srilaxmi; Varshney, Upkar
• Is Part Of: International journal of mobile communications. Volume 6:Number 4(2008)
• Page Start: 499
• Page End: 518
• Publication Date: 2008-04-30
• Subjects: electronic health records -- EHR -- electronic medical records -- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- HIPAA -- pervasive healthcare -- privacy -- security -- wireless health -- mobile communications -- e-health -- electronic healthcare; Mobile communication systems -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; 384.53
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-949X

Abstract

With an increasing emphasis on pervasive healthcare services, providing a high degree of privacy to patients is becoming a major challenge due to: (a) an increased number of avenues, such as device, access points, switches and database; (b) more threats to privacy then ever before and (c) a higher expectation from society due to the sensitive and personal nature of medical and health information. In this paper, we present a framework for privacy in pervasive healthcare. Various applications and scenarios have been identified, details of the framework are presented and its applications to representative pervasive healthcare applications.