Title
Data-centric privacy protocol for intensive care grids
Abstract
Modern e-Health systems require advanced computing and storage capabilities, leading to the adoption of technologies like the grid and giving birth to novel health grid systems. In particular, intensive care medicine uses this paradigm when facing a high flow of data coming from intensive care unit's (ICU) inpatients just like demonstrated by the ICGrid system prototyped by the University of Cyprus. Unfortunately, moving an ICU patient's data from the traditionally isolated hospital's computing facilities to data grids via public networks (i.e., the Internet) makes it imperative to establish an integral and standardized security solution to avoid common attacks on the data and metadata being managed. Particular emphasis must be put on the patient's personal data, the protection of which is required by legislations in many countries of the European Union and the world in general. In this paper, we extend our previous research with the following contributions: 1) a mandatory access control model to protect patient's metadata; 2) a major security revision to our previously proposed privacy protocol by contributing with a “quality of security” quantitative metric to improve fragmented data's assurance; and finally, 3) a set of early results to demonstrate that our protocol not only improves a patient personal data's security and privacy but also achieves a performance comparable with existing approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/TITB.2010.2073478
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
data privacy,grid computing,medical administrative data processing,ICGrid system,data-centric privacy protocol,e-health systems,health grid systems,intensive care medicine,major security revision,mandatory access control model,quality-of-security metric,Data fragmentation,health grids,intensive care grid (ICGrid),privacy,security
Metadata,Data mining,Data security,Grid computing,Computer science,Computer security,Mandatory access control,Information privacy,Intensive care,European union,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
6
1089-7771
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.50
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jesus Luna114316.72
Marios D. Dikaiakos269772.63
Manolis Marazakis313620.29
Theodoros Kyprianou4163.49