Bernhard Riedl, Veronika Grascher, Mathias Kolb, Thomas Neubauer. Economic and Security Aspects of Applying a Threshold Scheme in e-Health. In Proceedings of the The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2008, March 4-7, 2008, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona , Spain. pages 39-46, IEEE Computer Society, 2008. [doi]
Today, the healthcare sector is driven by the need to reduce costs while simultaneously increasing the service quality for patients. This goal can be reached by the implementation of an EHR (Electronic Health Record) system. Several architectures have been proposed, but lack appropriate security mechanisms to protect the patients’ privacy. In this publication we outline our approach PIPE (Pseudonymization of Information for Privacy in e-Health), which is applicable for the primary and secondary usage of health data and give insights on the security of our technique. Further we state the economic constraints, by proposing a threshold scheme to secure the tokens needed for accessing the system.