AUTOMATING AUTHORIZATION PROPAGATION PROCESS IN PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS

Vassiliki Koufi, Flora Malamateniou, George Vassilacopoulos

2010

Abstract

Traditionally patient records are generated, maintained and controlled by the individual health care providers where the patient has received care. This results in fragmented bits of data stored in diverse information systems which, in many cases, are not interoperable. Hence, a complete picture of a person’s healthcare record cannot be obtained when and where needed. A solution to this problem can be provided by personal health records (PHR), that is electronic health records (EHR) whose architectures are based on the fundamental assumptions that the complete records are centrally stored and that each patient retains authority over access to any portion of his/her record. This paper deals with a particular security issue arising in PHRs which is concerned with the process of granting (revoking) authorization to (from) healthcare professionals without the patient’s involvement. This security issue is particularly important in managing emergency cases. To deal with this problem, authorization propagation process is automated by means of context-aware technology, which is used to regulate user access to data via a fine-grained access control mechanism.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koufi V., Malamateniou F. and Vassilacopoulos G. (2010). AUTOMATING AUTHORIZATION PROPAGATION PROCESS IN PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 82-89. DOI: 10.5220/0002747200820089

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf10,
author={Vassiliki Koufi and Flora Malamateniou and George Vassilacopoulos},
title={AUTOMATING AUTHORIZATION PROPAGATION PROCESS IN PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={82-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002747200820089},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - AUTOMATING AUTHORIZATION PROPAGATION PROCESS IN PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Koufi V.
AU - Malamateniou F.
AU - Vassilacopoulos G.
PY - 2010
SP - 82
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0002747200820089