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Toward Usable and Trustworthy Online Monitoring on e-Health Applications

Authors:
Youna Jung

Keywords: e-health application; online monitoring; privacy protection; framework; secure monitoring service; secure browser; toolkit.

Abstract:
To enable and validate their effectiveness, many e-health applications track how they are used by patients. 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 and third-parties such as advertisement companies against wishes of a user. To prevent privacy loss during online monitoring, as a preliminary work, we came up with the idea of a privacy-preserving online monitoring framework, in short PPoM, that helps both of e-health providers and users specify their own policies and enforce user privacy policies during monitoring in systematic manner. In this paper, we extend the idea of the PPoM framework by describing a motivating example of privacy violation during online monitoring and specifying each component in the framework, and demonstrating a prototype of the secure user browser, called PPoM browser.

Pages: 122 to 132

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2016. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2660