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SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud

Authors:
Lu Fan
Owen Lo
William Buchanan
Elias Ekonomou
Christoph Thuemmler
Omair Uthmani
Alistair Lawson
Tabassum Sharif
Craig Sheridan

Keywords: Single Point of Contact, e-Health, Privacy, Security, Cloud Computing

Abstract:
The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is in general subsumed under the term e-Health. The Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference (DACAR) project provides an open e-Health service platform that reinforces the integrity, security, confidentiality and auditability of medical data throughout their life-cycle. This paper presents the design and implementation of the core component of this platform, namely the Single Point of Contact (SPoC). A SPoC is essentially a security authority that provides claim-based authentication and authorisation functionalities, and facilitates the development and integration of secure e-Health services hosted within a Cloud Computing environment.

Pages: 98 to 104

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012