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Collaborative and Secure Sharing of Healthcare Records Using Attribute-Based Authenticated Access

Authors:
Mohamed Abomhara
Huihui Yang

Keywords: Healthcare; Access control; Authorization; Collaboration environments; Attribute based authentication.

Abstract:
The electronic health records are a widely utilized system in electronic health. It offers an efficient way to share patient health records among those in the medical industry, such as physicians and nurses. The barrier that currently overshadows the effective use of electronic health records is the lack of security control over information flow where sensitive health information is shared among a group of people within or across organizations. This study highlights authorization matters in cooperative engagements with complex scenarios in the collaborative healthcare domain. The focus is mainly on collaborative activities that are best accomplished by organized groups of healthcare practitioners within or among healthcare organizations with the objective of accomplishing a specific task (a case of patient treatment). In this study, we first investigate and gain a deep understanding of insider threat problems in the collaborative healthcare domain. Second, an authorization schema is proposed that is suitable for collaborative healthcare systems to address the issue of information sharing and information security. The proposed scheme is based on attribute-based authentication, which, is a way to authenticate users by attributes or their properties. Finally, we evaluate the security of the proposed scheme to ensure our proposed scheme is unforgeable, coalition resistant, and traceable as well as it providers confidentiality and anonymity.

Pages: 184 to 195

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

Publication date: December 31, 2016

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2636