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Elderly Health Care - Security and Privacy Issue

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The current trend in offering universal health care based on open distributed health care network which will provide health care to elderly, socially and economically weak population, and physically challenged patients has lead to rapid digitization of health care data, and wireless medium for data communication. Although it has many advantages and has immense potential to improve health care availability, it has created many challenges in maintaining health care services, in particular in offering security and privacy of the most vulnerable members of society who are the elderly. In this paper we identify the current status of elderly care, their vulnerabilities, and challenges faced to offer them health care in total privacy and dignity.

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    Kaiyu Wan

  2. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Vangalur Alagar & Peter Oyikanmi

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  3. Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

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  4. Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China

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Wan, K., Alagar, V., Oyikanmi, P. (2017). Elderly Health Care - Security and Privacy Issue. In: Zou, B., Li, M., Wang, H., Song, X., Xie, W., Lu, Z. (eds) Data Science. ICPCSEE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 727. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6385-5_24

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