A collaborative approval process for accessing sensitive data

  • Authors:
  • Liam Peyton;Jun Hu;Hao Liu;Mansour Al-Saleh;Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada.;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada.;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada.;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada.;School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Canada

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A collaborative environment to improve and streamline approval processes online is presented. A scenario for approving requests to access sensitive medical data records for research purposes from a medical data warehouse at a teaching hospital is used to illustrate the special requirements needed for collaborative approval processes. The architectural framework to support such processes is defined. It includes support for collaborative signatures, a service-oriented architecture to integrate security mechanisms, policy-based control to address privacy issues and categorisation and anonymisation of data along multiple dimensions to control access within a collaborative environment.