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Usability Enhancement on the Privacy-Preserving Online Monitoring Framework for E-Health Applications

Authors:
Youna Jung
Minsoo Kim

Keywords: Privacy; policy-based protection; online monitoring; framework; e-health; usability.

Abstract:
Many e-health applications are currently using online monitoring services to improve the accuracy and quality of services. Privacy concern is however one of the biggest obstacles in widespread adoption of e-health applications. To address the privacy issue on e-health applications, we have preliminarily developed the privacy-preserving online monitoring framework (PPoM) that enables healthcare providers and patients to specify their own privacy policies without professional knowledge and skills and enforces patients’ privacy policies during monitoring in systematic manner. The prototype successfully protects patients’ privacy against unwanted data disclosure but its complex user interfaces reduce the performance of the PPoM. In this paper, we describe how we improve the PPoM to address the usability issue and present the enhanced version of the PPoM.

Pages: 145 to 154

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2017

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2636