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Today, people grow older than some decades ago. This inevitably leads to an increasing number of commercial players in the healthcare domain. Privacy is a major concern in many eHealth application, especially when sensitive personal data is stored in databases. This paper presents a secure, fair and privacy-preserving solution to enforce the patient’s privacy preferences on his or her personal medical records. The proposed cryptographic tools and protocols are thoroughly explained. Moreover, a prototype implementation validates the concept. Finally, it is shown that a convenient, modular and generic system based on lightweight cryptographic primitives can be realized as proposed.
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Sandıkkaya, M.T., De Decker, B., Naessens, V. (2011). Privacy in Commercial Medical Storage Systems. In: Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P. (eds) Electronic Healthcare. eHealth 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_32
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