On securing communications among federated health information systems

  • Authors:
  • Mario Ciampi;Giuseppe De Pietro;Christian Esposito;Mario Sicuranza;Paolo Mori;Abraham Gebrehiwot;Paolo Donzelli

  • Affiliations:
  • ICAR - CNR, Napoli, Italy;ICAR - CNR, Napoli, Italy;ICAR - CNR, Napoli, Italy;ICAR - CNR, Napoli, Italy;IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy;IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy;DDI - Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • SAFECOMP'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The current trend in designing Health Information Systems is to apply federated architectures by integrating existing systems. This exacerbates the security guarantees that such systems are required to satisfy and demands the introduction of advanced methods for dealing with security. This paper aims at describing how federated Health Information Systems can offer security properties by adopting proper mechanisms to protect exchanged data and provided functionalities from malicious manipulations.