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Privacy-Preserving Online Monitoring Framework for e-Health Applications

Authors:
Youna Jung

Keywords: e-health application; online monitoring; privacy protection; framework

Abstract:
Many e-health applications track how they are used by patients to enable and validate their effectiveness. While online monitoring can improve the accuracy and quality of e-health applications, there is the potential of serious privacy violations. As e-health applications use online monitoring services, sensitive health data could be exposed to not only the healthcare providers but also the monitoring service providers against wishes of a user. To prevent privacy loss during online monitoring, in this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving online monitoring framework, in short PPoM, that helps providers and users of e-health applications specify their own policies and enforce user privacy policies in systematic manner. To support medical staff and users who do not have enough knowledge and skills on Information Technologies (IT), the PPoM framework provides intuitive and automatic tools that enable non-IT administrators and users to generate privacy policies, enable administrators to automatically insert monitoring code into their e-health applications, and control outgoing messages sent from users’ browsers.

Pages: 18 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: July 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-424-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015