Patient's privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services
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چکیده
The Internet and mobile networks have penetrated the healthcare sector due to their increased functionality, low cost, high reliability and easy-to-use nature. However, in such healthcare environment the privacy and security of the transmitted information must be preserved. When dealing with health sensitive information at times it is vital to protect the patient’s identity and their health sensitive information from third parties. In this paper we present a protocol that will authenticate and authorize patients to healthcare services without providing the patient’s identification. The protocol protects patient’s privacy with a secure anonymous authentication to healthcare services, where the patient has access to a complete set of healthcare services.
منابع مشابه
Patient privacy protection using anonymous access control techniques.
OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to develop a solution to preserve security and privacy in a healthcare environment where health-sensitive information will be accessed by many parties and stored in various distributed databases. The solution should maintain anonymous medical records and it should be able to link anonymous medical information in distributed databases into a single patien...
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