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Protecting Patient Privacy when Sharing Medical Data

Authors:
Stefan Benzschawel
Marcos Da Silveira

Keywords: eHealth; Patient Privacy; Electronic Health Records; Secure Patient Data Storage

Abstract:
This paper describes a national eHealth platform concept with a multi-level privacy protection in order to improve the security and privacy of medical information on their storage locations as well as during the exchanging/sharing processes. The key idea is to classify and split-up data into different servers. A Trusted Third Party server manages personal identifying data together with the related pseudonyms while the medical information server manages the related medical data assigned to pseudonyms. The well known IHE-XDS profiles are enriched by Public Key Infrastructure, symmetric and asymmetric encryption together with pseudonymization methods. IHE-XDS promote the interoperability level and the extensions increase the security level.

Pages: 108 to 113

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-119-9

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011