Bernhard Riedl, Oliver Jorns. Secure Access to Emergency Data in an e-Health Architecture. In Gabriele Kotsis, David Taniar, Eric Pardede, Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, editors, iiWAS 2007 - The Ninth International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications Services, 3-5 December 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia. Volume 229 of books@ocg.at, pages 297-306, Austrian Computer Society, 2007.
The electronic health record (EHR) promises a decrease of costs as well as better service quality for patients. Unfortunatly, with this planned centralized storage arise security issues, exemplarily privacy related-problems. As the special subset of medical data, the emergency data, has to be available just-in-time, complex authentication purposes occur. Our approach PIPE (Pseudonymization of Information for Privacy in e-Health) guarantees security for the sensible patient’s medical data by applying authentication soley based on encryption. Furthermore, we provide a novel ad-hoc authentication mechanism for emergency data, which is based on the notion of pseudonyms.