Research Article
Managing Personal Health Records in an Infrastructure-Weak Environment
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_18, author={Nicolas Anciaux and S\^{e}bastien Guillotton and Luc Bouganim and Sergio Ilarri and Alain Kamgang and Abraham Ngami and Christophe Nouedoui and Philippe Pucheral and Maurice Tchuente}, title={Managing Personal Health Records in an Infrastructure-Weak Environment}, proceedings={e-Infrastructure and e-Services. 7th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2015, Cotonou, Benin, December 15-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={AFRICOMM}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_18} }- Nicolas Anciaux
Sébastien Guillotton
Luc Bouganim
Sergio Ilarri
Alain Kamgang
Abraham Ngami
Christophe Nouedoui
Philippe Pucheral
Maurice Tchuente
Year: 2017
Managing Personal Health Records in an Infrastructure-Weak Environment
AFRICOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_18
Abstract
There are currently more than half a million diabetes cases in Cameroon and the deaths caused by diabetes complications will double before 2030. Diabetes complications mostly occur due to a bad follow-up of patients. In this paper, we propose a new IT architecture for diabetes follow-up and introduce the bases of a new distributed computation protocol for this architecture. Our approach does not require any preexisting support communication infrastructure, can be deployed at low cost, and provides strong privacy and security guarantees. This work envisions an experiment in the field we plan to conduct under the authority of the Cameroonian National Center for Diabetes and Hypertension, with a potential for generalization to other diseases.