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

作者：Malladi Srilaxmi^*; Varshney Upkar

来源：International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2008, 6(4): 499-518.

DOI：10.1504/IJMC.2008.018056

• Electronic Health Record
• EHR
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HIPAA
• pervasive health
• privacy
• security
• wireless health

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.

• 出版日期2008