TY - GEN
T1 - Secure sharing of electronic health records in clouds
AU - Wu, Ruoyu
AU - Ahn, Gail-Joon
AU - Hu, Hongxin
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In modern healthcare environments, healthcare providers are more willing to shift their electronic medical record systems to clouds. Instead of building and maintaining dedicated data centers, this paradigm enables to achieve lower operational cost and better interoperability with other healthcare providers. However, the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare systems may also raise many security challenges associated with authentication, identity management, access control, trust management, and so on. In this paper, we focus on access control issues in electronic medical record systems in clouds. We propose a systematic access control mechanism to support selective sharing of composite electronic health records (EHRs) aggregated from various healthcare providers in clouds. Our approach ensures that privacy concerns are accommodated for processing access requests to patients' healthcare information.We also demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of our approach by implementing a proof-of-concept prototype along with evaluation results.
AB - In modern healthcare environments, healthcare providers are more willing to shift their electronic medical record systems to clouds. Instead of building and maintaining dedicated data centers, this paradigm enables to achieve lower operational cost and better interoperability with other healthcare providers. However, the adoption of cloud computing in healthcare systems may also raise many security challenges associated with authentication, identity management, access control, trust management, and so on. In this paper, we focus on access control issues in electronic medical record systems in clouds. We propose a systematic access control mechanism to support selective sharing of composite electronic health records (EHRs) aggregated from various healthcare providers in clouds. Our approach ensures that privacy concerns are accommodated for processing access requests to patients' healthcare information.We also demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of our approach by implementing a proof-of-concept prototype along with evaluation results.
KW - Access Control
KW - Cloud Computing
KW - Electronic Health Record
KW - Security
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U2 - 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2012.250497
DO - 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2012.250497
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874415951
SN - 9781936968367
T3 - CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
SP - 711
EP - 718
BT - CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing
T2 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012
Y2 - 14 October 2012 through 17 October 2012
ER -