A trust-aware tag-based privacy control for eHealth 2.0

  • Authors:
  • Kyle Levy;Brent Sargent;Yan Bai

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, USA;University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, USA;University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Healthcare social networking is an emerging web 2.0 application that promise to bring about a whole revolution in the way that health care is delivered. In healthcare social networks, health information requires extra protection as its disclosure can have serious repercussions in the content owner's private and professional life. We have developed a prototype of healthcare social network system (called Husky eHealth 2.0) with a trust-aware tag-based privacy control scheme. The scheme protects private information from unauthorized access using both tagging and trust ratings information. A preliminary evaluation of the prototype system is also given. The results have shown that Husky eHealth 2.0 provides an effective privacy control to healthcare social network users.