IMPROVING E-HEALTH SECURITY THROUGH TRUST NEGOTIATION

Mahmoud Elkhodr, Seyed Shahrestani, Hon Cheung

2011

Abstract

To achieve higher levels of efficiency and to improve the quality of care, remote monitoring systems for elderly offer interesting solutions. The data collected by the monitoring system are transmitted to the healthcare provider and stored on the healthcare provider’s server in the form of patients’ Electronic Health Records (EHR). It is important to secure the transmission of the patient’s EHR between the healthcare provider server and the mobile device being used by the healthcare professional, as their communication is normally via unsecure networks, such as the Internet. The approaches proposed in this study ensure that patients’ EHRs are only disclosed to the authorized healthcare professionals, on the registered devices and at the appropriate locations. To achieve these security requirements, building on the strengths of Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, a trust negotiation approach is proposed. For verification purposes, a mobile application is also constructed. The experimental works confirm that by applying the proposed approach, significant improvements in the security of the remote health monitoring systems can be achieved.

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in Harvard Style

Elkhodr M., Shahrestani S. and Cheung H. (2011). IMPROVING E-HEALTH SECURITY THROUGH TRUST NEGOTIATION . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-76-8, pages 172-177. DOI: 10.5220/0003613701720177


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft11,
author={Mahmoud Elkhodr and Seyed Shahrestani and Hon Cheung},
title={IMPROVING E-HEALTH SECURITY THROUGH TRUST NEGOTIATION },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2011},
pages={172-177},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003613701720177},
isbn={978-989-8425-76-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Database Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - IMPROVING E-HEALTH SECURITY THROUGH TRUST NEGOTIATION
SN - 978-989-8425-76-8
AU - Elkhodr M.
AU - Shahrestani S.
AU - Cheung H.
PY - 2011
SP - 172
EP - 177
DO - 10.5220/0003613701720177