Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2011, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

An Access Control Framework for Pervasive Mobile Healthcare Systems Utilizing Cloud Services

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_52,
        author={Mikaela Poulymenopoulou and Flora Malamateniou and George Vassilacopoulos},
        title={An Access Control Framework for Pervasive Mobile Healthcare Systems Utilizing Cloud Services},
        proceedings={Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, MobiHealth 2011, Kos Island, Greece, October 5-7, 2011. Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={context-aware access control mobile and cloud computing healthcare},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_52}
    }
    
  • Mikaela Poulymenopoulou
    Flora Malamateniou
    George Vassilacopoulos
    Year: 2012
    An Access Control Framework for Pervasive Mobile Healthcare Systems Utilizing Cloud Services
    MOBIHEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_52
Mikaela Poulymenopoulou1,*, Flora Malamateniou1,*, George Vassilacopoulos1,*
  • 1: University of Piraeus
*Contact email: mpouly@unipi.gr, flora@unipi.gr, gvass@unipi.gr

Abstract

Mobile in conjunction with cloud computing can fulfil the vision of “Pervasive Healthcare” by enabling authorized healthcare participants to access services and required patient information without locational, time and other restraints. Of particular importance on such healthcare systems that incorporate mobile devices and cloud services is protecting the confidentiality of patient information. On these grounds, this paper proposes an access control framework for providing role-based context-aware authorization services with regard services invocations and patient information accesses. According to this, authorization decisions are taken according to contextual constraints that result from the domain ontology inferring that is used to represent context information.