A new architecture for secure storage and sharing of health records in the cloud using federated identity attributes

Author

de Melo Silva, Lucas ; Araujo, Roberto ; Leite da Silva, Felipe ; Cerqueira, Eduardo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Fed. do Para, Belem, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

15-18 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

199

Abstract

Cloud computing is a technological service that has become a trend. This paradigm adds many benefits to storage of personal health records (PHR) and electronic health records (EHR), such as availability and on-demand provisioning. It also facilitates sharing of health records among doctors, family members, friends and clinicians in general. However, this technology increases the risk of leaking sensitive health data. Aiming at mitigating this problem, we present here a new architecture that takes advantage of identity federation for secure storage and sharing of PHR and EHR in the cloud environment.

Keywords

cloud computing; electronic health records; security of data; software architecture; EHR; PHR; cloud computing; data security; electronic health records; federated identity attributes; personal health records; record sharing; software architecture; Encryption; Medical services; Organizations; Proposals; Secure storage; attribute-based encryption; cloud computing; federated identity; health records; privacy; security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Natal

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2014.7001840

Filename

7001840