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Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Lim, A. K., Thuemmler, C., Paulin, A., Jell, T., & Keow Lim, A. K. (2017). Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services. In S. Latifi (Ed.), Information Technology-Next Generation (811-817). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_100

As more and more details of 5G technology specifications unveil and standards emerge it becomes clear that 5G will have an enabling effect on many different verticals including automotive, mobility and health. This paper gives an overview about techn... Read More about Information Technology – Next Generation: The Impact of 5G on the Evolution of Health and Care Services.

Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Grigoriadis, N., Bakirtzis, C., Politis, C., Danas, K., & Thuemmler, C. (2016). Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (100-104). https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2016.7749437

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and variable disease in matters of symptoms, clinical course and outcome. The ultimate goal of currently used drugs and therapeutic strategies is the control of disease activity and the delay of the ongoing disability.... Read More about Health 4.0: The Case of Multiple Sclerosis.

Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Paulin, A., & Thuemmler, C. (2016). Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), (245-248). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749462

This paper describes the use of the Secure SQL Server system (SecSQL) – a system for dynamic fine-grained access control, in the context of e-Health. The system was used in two heterogeneous use-cases of a European project, namely: to govern drugs al... Read More about Dynamic fine-grained access control in e-Health using: The secure SQL server system as an enabler of the future Internet.

Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Thuemmler, C., Paulin, A., & Lim, A. K. (2016). Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (233-238). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749460

This paper summarizes the determinants for future e-Health network and IT infrastructures in the health care environment. The paper bases on observations conducted as part of a larger study at a university hospital in Munich, and summarizes ongoing d... Read More about Determinants of Next Generation e-Health Network and Architecture Specifications.

U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Zeb, K., Saleem, K., Al Muhtadi, J., & Thuemmler, C. (2016). U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks. In 2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (562-567). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749518

Cybersecurity in the health care domain is one of the most important and critical issues of this era. In fact, it was reported in 2014 that on the black market medical records are worth 10 times more than credit card details [1]. Datasets experience... Read More about U-Prove Based Security Framework for Mobile Device Authentication in eHealth Networks.

Enabling Real-Time Context-Aware Collaboration through 5G and Mobile Edge Computing (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Nunna, S., Kousaridas, A., Ibrahim, M., Dillinger, M., Thuemmler, C., Feussner, H., & Schneider, A. (2015). Enabling Real-Time Context-Aware Collaboration through 5G and Mobile Edge Computing. In 2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations. https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2015.155

Creating context-aware ad hoc collaborative systems remains to be one of the primary hurdles hampering the ubiquitous deployment of IT and communication services. Especially under mission-critical scenarios, these services must often adhere to st... Read More about Enabling Real-Time Context-Aware Collaboration through 5G and Mobile Edge Computing.

Ethical assessment in e-Health (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Gonzalez-Pinto, A., Ruiz de Azua, S., Mival, O. H., Thuernmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Ispas, I., …González-Pinto, A. (2015). Ethical assessment in e-Health. In 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (262-268). https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2014.7001852

While innovative e-Health and m-Health technologies and solutions will eventually change the way health and social care are delivered, it raises many challenges regarding what sort of ethical concerns need to be addressed in order to provide imperati... Read More about Ethical assessment in e-Health.

A social-technological alignment matrix. (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Lim, A. K., Holanec, I., & Fricker, S. (2015). A social-technological alignment matrix. In 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (200-205). https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2014.7001841

This paper refers to the term " implementation " as the Especially in health care this has proven to be a very critical phase Although strategies such as requirements engineering, co-designing and user interaction design have been proposed to reduce... Read More about A social-technological alignment matrix..

Specification for Generic Enablers as Software (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brogan, J. P., & Thuemmler, C. (2014). Specification for Generic Enablers as Software. In 2014 11th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (129-136). https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2014.51

Generic Enablers are a specialism of software engineering. They are components used for providing reusable building blocks that enable the construction of applications for future internet technology. The Generic Enablers satisfy requirements of appli... Read More about Specification for Generic Enablers as Software.

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., …Paulin, A. (2014). Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. In 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (IEEE Healthcom 2013) (382-387). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720705

Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnership (FI-PPP) has created a whole array of different purpose-oriented modules... Read More about Norms and standards in modular medical architectures..

An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sotiriadis, S., Petrakis, E. G. M., Covaci, S., Zampognaro, P., Georga, E., & Thuemmler, C. (2014). An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology. In 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/bibe.2013.6701578

The emergency of cloud computing and Generic Enablers (GEs) as the building blocks of Future Internet (FI) applications highlights new requirements in the area of cloud services. Though, due to the current restrictions of various certification standa... Read More about An architecture for designing Future Internet (FI) applications in sensitive domains: Expressing the software to data paradigm by utilizing hybrid cloud technology.

Applying the Software-to-Data Paradigm in Next Generation E-Health Hybrid Clouds (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Thuemmler, C., Mueller, J., Covaci, S., Magedanz, T., de Panfilis, S., Jell, T., …Gavras, A. (2013). Applying the Software-to-Data Paradigm in Next Generation E-Health Hybrid Clouds. In 2013 Tenth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), (459-463). https://doi.org/10.1109/itng.2013.77

Health care providers have over years continuously rejected Public Cloud technology for understandable concerns regarding privacy and confidentiality. The pick up rate on cloud computing in health care has been very poor reminding at the typical hype... Read More about Applying the Software-to-Data Paradigm in Next Generation E-Health Hybrid Clouds.

Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Lawson, A., Schafer, B., Scott, R., Thuemmler, C., & Uthmani, O. (2012). Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online. In Legal Knowledge and Information Systems; JURIX 2012 (31-40). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-167-0-31

The paper reports of a collaborative project between computer scientists, lawyers, police officers, medical professionals and social workers to develop a communication in infrastructure that allows information sharing while observing Data Protection... Read More about Computational data protection law: trusting each other offline and online..

SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud (2012)
Conference Proceeding
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)

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 integr... Read More about SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud.

Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2012). Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. In M. Macedo (Ed.), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012

Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. We propose an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evaluation, l... Read More about Technical evaluation of an e-health platform..

An Integrated Cloud-based Healthcare Infrastructure. (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Ekonomou, E., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2011). An Integrated Cloud-based Healthcare Infrastructure. In 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) (532-536). https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2011.80

We present a cloud-based healthcare system that integrates a formal care system (DACAR) with an informal care system (Microsoft HealthVault). The system provides high levels of security and privacy within a cloud environment, enabling sharing of both... Read More about An Integrated Cloud-based Healthcare Infrastructure..

DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Lo, O., Khedim, A. S., Uthmani, O., …Bell, D. (2011). DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. . https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.31

The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is collectively known as eHealth. Considerable progress has been made in the development of eHealth services, but concerns over service integration, large scale deployment, and securit... Read More about DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud..

Information sharing framework: next generation e-Health cloud. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Fan, L., Lo, O., & Khedim, A. S. (2010). Information sharing framework: next generation e-Health cloud.

This presentation outlines the novel e-Health Cloud. See: http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~bill/e_presentations/healthcloud01/healthcloud01.html

An e-Health cloud. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Fan, L., Lo, O., & Khedim, A. S. (2010). An e-Health cloud.

A significant weakness within cloud-based systems is often their security. This presentation shows how a health care cloud has been created which preserves the rights of the patient to control access to their captured data, and then how this is used... Read More about An e-Health cloud..

Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Lawson, A., Schafer, B., Scott, R., Thuemmler, C., & Uthmani, O. (2010). Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law.

The paper describes a collaborative project between computer scientist, police officers, medical professionals and social workers to develop a communication infrastructure that allows information sharing while observing Data Protection law “by design... Read More about Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law..