Research Article
Patient’s privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2509, author={Dasun Weerasinghe and Kalid Elmufti and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan and Veselin Rakocevic}, title={Patient’s privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2008}, month={7}, keywords={Access protocols Authentication Biomedical engineering Data security IP networks Information security Insurance Medical services Privacy Protection}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2509} }- Dasun Weerasinghe
Kalid Elmufti
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
Veselin Rakocevic
Year: 2008
Patient’s privacy protection with anonymous access to medical services
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2509
Abstract
The Internet and mobile networks have penetrated the healthcare sector due to their increased functionality, low cost, high reliability and easy-to-use nature. However, in such healthcare environment the privacy and security of the transmitted information must be preserved. When dealing with health sensitive information at times it is vital to protect the patient’s identity and their health sensitive information from third parties. In this paper we present a protocol that will authenticate and authorize patients to healthcare services without providing the patient’s identification. The protocol protects patient’s privacy with a secure anonymous authentication to healthcare services, where the patient has access to a complete set of healthcare services.