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Attribute-Based Authenticated Access for Secure Sharing of Healthcare Records in Collaborative Environments

Authors:
Mohamed Abomhara
Huihui Yang

Keywords: Electronic health records; Authorization; Authentication; Data security and privacy; Attribute-based authentication; Collaboration.

Abstract:
This study highlights authorization matters in cooperative engagements with complex scenarios in the collaborative healthcare domain. 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, 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 (ABA), which is a way to authenticate users by attributes or their properties. The main goal is to provide an authorization model that strikes a balance between collaboration, flexible access to patient information and safeguarding sensitive patient information.

Pages: 138 to 144

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-470-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016