The Design and Analysis of a Secure Personal Healthcare System Based on Certificates

• Published in: Symmetry (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 11; p. 129
• Main Authors: Kang, Jungho, Chung, Hague, Lee, Jeongkyu, Park, Jong Hyuk
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-11-2016
• Subjects: authentication; certificate; Channels; Computer information security; Disease control; e-Healthcare; Health; Health care; Information technology; Management; Medical services; security; system design
• ISSN: 2073-8994; 2073-8994
• DOI: 10.3390/sym8110129

Due to the development of information technology (IT), it has been applied to various fields such as the smart home, medicine, healthcare, and the smart car. For these fields, IT has been providing continuous prevention and management, including health conditions beyond the mere prevention of disease, improving the quality of life. e-Healthcare is a health management and medical service to provide prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and the follow-up management of diseases at any time and place in connection with information communication technology, without requiring patients to visit hospitals. However, e-Healthcare has been exposed to eavesdropping, manipulation, and the forgery of information that is personal, biological, medical, etc., and is a security threat from malicious attackers. This study suggests a security service model to exchange personal health records (PHRs) for e-Healthcare environments. To be specific, this study suggests a scheme in which communicators are able to securely authorize and establish security channels by constituting the infrastructure each organization relies on. In addition, the possibility of establishing a security service model is indicated by suggesting an e-Healthcare system for a secure e-Healthcare environment as a secure personal health record system. This is anticipated to provide securer communication in e-Healthcare environments in the future through the scheme suggested in this study.