Title: Secure healthcare data sharing among federated health information systems

Authors: Mario Sicuranza; Mario Ciampi; Giuseppe De Pietro; Christian Esposito

Addresses: Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), via Pietro Castellino, 111 – 80131 Napoli, Italy ' Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), via Pietro Castellino, 111 – 80131 Napoli, Italy ' Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), via Pietro Castellino, 111 – 80131 Napoli, Italy ' Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), via Pietro Castellino, 111 – 80131 Napoli, Italy

Abstract: The current trend in designing health information systems is to apply federated architectures to integrate existing systems. This exacerbates the security guarantees that such systems are required to satisfy and demands the introduction of advanced methods to deal with security. This paper aims at describing how federated health information systems can offer security properties by adopting proper mechanisms to protect the exchanged data and the provided functionalities from malicious manipulations. We have experimentally evaluated the costs in terms of performance penalty related to the introduction of security mechanisms within the proposed solution.

Keywords: information security; access control; health information systems; HISs; information systems design; federated architectures; data exchange; malicious manipulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCCBS.2013.059023

International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems, 2013 Vol.4 No.4, pp.349 - 373

Received: 01 Mar 2013
Accepted: 24 Jun 2013

Published online: 29 Apr 2014 *

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