Towards Trusted eHealth Services in the Cloud

Antonis Michalas; Rafael Dowsley

doi:10.1109/UCC.2015.108

Towards Trusted eHealth Services in the Cloud

Antonis Michalas, Rafael Dowsley

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Abstract

As adoption of eHealth solutions advances, new computing paradigms - such as cloud computing - bring the potential to improve efficiency in managing medical health records and help reduce costs. However, these opportunities introduce new security risks which can not be ignored. In this paper, we present a forward-looking design for a privacy-preserving eHealth cloud system. The proposed solution, is based on a Symmetric Searchable Encryption scheme that allows patients of an electronic healthcare system to securely store encrypted versions of their medical data and search directly on them without having to decrypt them first. As a result, the proposed protocol offers better protection than the current available solutions and paves the way for the next generation of eHealth systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	618-623
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769556970
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/UCC.2015.108
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 7 Dec 2015 → 10 Dec 2015

Conference

Conference	8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2015
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	7/12/15 → 10/12/15

Keywords

Cloud Computing
eHealth
EHR Protection
Searchable Encryption
Security
Storage Protection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Computer Networks and Communications

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