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Access Control Protocol Based on Privacy Property of Patient in m-Healthcare Emergency

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In mobile healthcare (“m-healthcare”), a lot of attention is being paid nowadays to the construction of a better healthcare environment than the existing health monitoring system provided by connecting the smart phone to an implantable medical device. In the case of m-healthcare, however, the problem of a patient’s information easily exposed to a third party and misused in an emergency situation still persists. This research paper proposed the attribute-based patient access control protocol to minimize violation of a patient’s privacy using the patient’s information saved in a smart phone in the environment of an emergency situation of m-healthcare. The proposed protocol, to prevent the exposure of a patient’s sensitive information to a third party, includes sensitive information of the patient in Personal Health Information (PHI) and encodes the information with a signature key hashed by a random number created by the u-healthcare service center and the patient in question. In addition, to prevent misuse of patient information by a third party, the leak of PHI can be prevented by maintaining synchronization between the patient and officials at a hospital.

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  1. Department of Information Communication Engineering, Mokwon University, 88, Doanbuk-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon , 302-729, Korea

    Yoon-Su Jeong

  2. Department of Software, Chungbuk National University, 52 Naesudong-ro, Heungdeok-gu, Chungju, Chungbuk , 361-763, Korea

    Sang-Ho Lee

  3. Department of Information Security, Tongmyong University, 428, Sinseonno, Nam-gu, Busan , 608-711, Korea

    Seung-Soo Shin

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Jeong, YS., Lee, SH. & Shin, SS. Access Control Protocol Based on Privacy Property of Patient in m-Healthcare Emergency. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 2565–2578 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1767-2

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