Red Alert: Break-Glass Protocol to Access Encrypted Medical Records in the Cloud

Marcela Tuler De Oliveira; Antonis Michalas; Adrien E.D. Groot; Henk A. Marquering; Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga

doi:10.1109/HealthCom46333.2019.9009598

Red Alert: Break-Glass Protocol to Access Encrypted Medical Records in the Cloud

Marcela Tuler De Oliveira
, Antonis Michalas
, Adrien E.D. Groot
, Henk A. Marquering
, Silvia Delgado Olabarriaga

Computing Sciences

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Availability of medical records during an emergency situation is of paramount importance since it allows healthcare professionals to access patient's data on time and properly plan the next steps that need to be taken. Cloud storage has the potential to provide a solution to the problem of data unavailability during an emergency situation. However, sharing medical records raises several concerns about security and privacy. In this paper, we study the problem of how to share encrypted patients' data during an emergency situation. To this end, we propose a protocol through which a team of healthcare professionals can securely decrypt the medical records of a patient who is under an emergency situation (e.g. acute stroke). Furthermore, our protocol ensures that a team of healthcare professionals will only have access to the patient's data for the time needed to complete a specific process related to the patient's situation (e.g. transfer patient to the hospital). In our study, the dynamically granting and revoking data access during an emergency treatment is the main novelty.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2019
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728104027
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom46333.2019.9009598
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2019
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom - Bogota, Colombia Duration: 14 Oct 2019 → 16 Oct 2019

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom
Country/Territory	Colombia
City	Bogota
Period	14/10/19 → 16/10/19

Funding

This work was funded by the ASCLEPIOS project (Advanced Secure Cloud Encrypted Platform for Internationally Orchestrated Solutions in Healthcare) of the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 826093.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Attribute-Based Encryption
e-Health Privacy
Electronic Medical Records
Emergency care
Secure Cloud Storage

Publication forum classification

Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Health Informatics
Health(social science)

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De Oliveira, MT, Michalas, A, Groot, AED, Marquering, HA & Olabarriaga, SD 2019, Red Alert: Break-Glass Protocol to Access Encrypted Medical Records in the Cloud. in 2019 IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2019. IEEE, IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom, Bogota, Colombia, 14/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom46333.2019.9009598

Red Alert: Break-Glass Protocol to Access Encrypted Medical Records in the Cloud. / De Oliveira, Marcela Tuler; Michalas, Antonis; Groot, Adrien E.D. et al.
2019 IEEE International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2019. IEEE, 2019.

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