Design and application of a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant privacy framework for pervasive healthcare

  • Authors:
  • Srilaxmi Malladi;Upkar Varshney

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, 34 Peachtree street, Suite 1450, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.;J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, 35 Broad Street, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Mobile Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

With an increasing emphasis on pervasive healthcare services, providing a high degree of privacy to patients is becoming a major challenge due to: (a) an increased number of avenues, such as device, access points, switches and database; (b) more threats to privacy then ever before and (c) a higher expectation from society due to the sensitive and personal nature of medical and health information. In this paper, we present a framework for privacy in pervasive healthcare. Various applications and scenarios have been identified, details of the framework are presented and its applications to representative pervasive healthcare applications.