SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud

Fan, Lu; Buchanan, William J; Lo, Owen; Thuemmler, Christoph; Lawson, Alistair; Uthmani, Omair; Ekonomou, Elias; Khedim, Abou Sofyane

Abstract

The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is in general subsumed under the term e-Health. The Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference (DACAR) project provides an open e-Health service platform that reinforces the integrity, security, confidentiality and auditability of medical data throughout their life-cycle. This paper presents the design and implementation of the core component of this platform, namely the Single Point of Contact (SPoC). A SPoC is essentially a security authority that provides claim-based authentication and authorisation functionalities, and facilitates the development and integration of secure e-Health services hosted within a Cloud Computing environment.

Citation

Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., Thuemmler, C., Lawson, A., Uthmani, O., …Khedim, A. S. (2012). SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud. In eTELEMED 2012 (99-104)

• Start Date: Jan 30, 2012
• End Date: Feb 4, 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Deposit Date: Mar 6, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 99-104
• Book Title: eTELEMED 2012
• ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3
• Keywords: Digital technologies; e-Healthcare; Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference (DACAR); Single Point of Contact (SPoC)
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4992