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Development of an Information Security Standard for Protecting Health Information in u-Health Environment (u-Health 환경에서의 정보보호 수준제고를 위한 보안 표준 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Soo;Kim, Min-Soo
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 2007
  • e-Business in healthcare sector has been called e-Health, which is evolving into u-Health with advances of ubiquitous technologies. Seamless information sharing among health organizations is being discussed in many nations including USA, UK, Australia and Korea. Efforts for establishing the electronic health record (EHR) system and a nation-wide information sharing environment are called NHII (National Health Information Infrastructure) initiatives. With the advent of u-Health and progress of health information systems, information security issues in healthcare sector have become a very significant problem. In this paper, we analyze several issues on health information security occurring in u-Health environment and develop an information security standard for protecting health information. It is expected that the standard proposed in this work could be established as a national standard after sufficient reviews by information security experts, stakeholders in healthcare sector, and health professionals. Health organizations can establish comprehensive information security systems and protect health information more effectively using the standard. The result of this paper also contributes to relieving worries about privacy and security of individually identifiable health information brought by NHII implementation and u-Health systems.

Health Publicness beyond the Healthcare Systems: Focusing on the Concept of Health Security and the Process of Social Dialogue (보건의료 공공성을 넘어 건강공공성으로: 건강안보와 사회적 대화를 중심으로)

  • Moon, Daseul;Chung, Haejoo
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.329-338
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    • 2018
  • The study seeks to widen the discussion from healthcare oriented 'health publicness' to human security oriented 'health publicness'. The shortcomings of previous literatures on health publicness are as follows: (1) the studies have confined the range of discussions to healthcare system, (2) lacked arguments from political perspectives, and (3) failed to provide actionable pathways to achieve the goal. Thereby, we suggest 'health publicness' based on the concept of human security to solve multidimensional healthcare problems. The health publicness based on human security, which aims to secure everybody's freedom from want and fear, enables not only to expand the scope of health problems that can be discussed but also to propose the procedures to achieve health publicness. More specifically, it consists of substantive and procedural health publicness. The former is about 'health security'-protecting, maintaining, and promoting individual's health-whereas, the latter is about 'social dialogue' guaranteeing participation of citizens, government, employers, and worker representatives. In conclusion, this study proposes the 'Regional Healthcare Quadripartite' as the incarnation of health publicness involving a variety of actors within and across the healthcare system.

Security Requirements of Personal Health Service (개인건강서비스를 위한 보안 요구사항)

  • Kim, Sang-Kon;Hwang, Hee-Joung
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.548-556
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    • 2015
  • When the variety of personal health services are provided in the ICBM(IoT, Cloud, Bigdata, and Mobile) environment, the security requirements of personal health service(PHS) including privacy issues is proposed in this paper. Because it is expected that the services related to personal health are provided in the cloud environment, the security requirements of a cloud environment is firstly investigated and then security threats including direct and indirect threats in a cloud environment are analyzed in terms of the security of PHS. In addition, the security requirements of PHS is developed based on the security requirements of electronic medical record(EMR) for medical service in this paper, then the validity of the proposed security requirements is shown by the relation between security requirements of cloud environment and PHS to indicate that a security requriement is supported by several security requirements of PHS.

Study on Security Threat and Requirement for Personal Health Management in u-Health Environment (u-헬스 환경에서 개인건강관리를 위한 보안 위협 및 요구사항에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Soon-Seok;Park, Hong-Jin
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.504-511
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    • 2010
  • The personal bio-information supplied from the PHD(Personal Health Device) for personal health management is very sensitive in relation to a personal living body in an aspect of privacy protection. On the assumption thai the information is about a patient, it is more serious problem if it is revealed to a third party. However. the established ISO (International Organizations for Standardization) standard protocol[1] in October 2009 has just considered a transmission part for mutual exchange of bio-information between individuals, but has never actually considered security elements. Accordingly, this paper is to show all sorts of security threats according to personal health management in the u-health environment and security requirements newly.

Principles and Conceptual Framework for the Introduction of Korean Sickness Benefit (한국형 상병수당 도입을 위한 제도 설계의 원칙과 개념적 틀)

  • Kang, Hee-Chung
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.5-16
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    • 2021
  • Both access to healthcare services and income security in case of personal illness are being needed to achieve universal health coverage, which is enshrined in the human rights to health and social security and international standards on social protection. Income security acts on both the social determinants and the adverse consequences of ill health and thus would break the vicious disease-poverty cycle. The government is supposed to implement a demonstration project of sickness benefit in 2022 and to publicize its more specific blueprint for all workers. This study is to suggest basic principles and a framework to design a new sickness benefit for universal health coverage, which is based on reviews on previous studies, related issues, and institutional conditions. This is to provide a theoretical basis to promote further discussion and to support its decision-making.

A Study of Methodology Based on Role-Based Serucity Agent Medical Information System Security Architecture Design (보안 에이전트 역할 기반에 기초한 의료정보시스템 소프트웨어 보안아키텍쳐 설계방안)

  • Lee, Dae-Sung;Noh, Si-Choon
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2011
  • In addition to the rapid development of health information technology services for the development of new medical information, a lot of research is underway. Improve health care services for patients are many ways to help them. However, no information about the security, if only the technology advances in health care systems will create an element of risk and threat. Today's issues and access issues are stable over a public network. Ad hocsensor network using secure, non-integrated health information system's security vulnerabilities does not solve the security vulnerabilities. In the development and utilization of health information systems to be subject to greater restrictions. Different security policies in an environment with a medical information system security policy mechanism that can be resolved if people get here are needed. Context-aware and flexible policy of integration and confidential medical information through the resistance should be guaranteed. Other cross-domain access control policy for telecommunications should be protected. In this paper, that the caller's medical information system, diversification, diversification Security agent in the environment, architecture, design, plan, role-based security system are proposed. The proposed system architecture, design work in the field and in the utilization of one model are expected to be.

A Study on Five Levels of Security Risk Assessment Model Design for Ensuring the u-Healthcare Information System (u-헬스케어시스템의 정보보안 체계 확보를 위한 5단계 보안위험도 평가모델 설계)

  • Noh, Si Choon
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2013
  • All u-Health system has security vulnerabilities. This vulnerability locally(local) or network(network) is on the potential risk. Smart environment of health information technology, Ad-hoc networking, wireless communication environments, u-health are major factor to increase the security vulnerability. u-health care information systems user terminal domain interval, interval public network infrastructure, networking section, the intranet are divided into sections. Health information systems by separating domain specific reason to assess vulnerability vulnerability countermeasure for each domain are different. u-Healthcare System 5 layers of security risk assessment system for domain-specific security vulnerability diagnosis system designed to take the security measures are needed. If you use this proposed model that has been conducted so far vaguely USN-based health information network security vulnerabilities diagnostic measures can be done more systematically provide a model.

Blockchain-based Data Storage Security Architecture for e-Health Care Systems: A Case of Government of Tanzania Hospital Management Information System

  • Mnyawi, Richard;Kombe, Cleverence;Sam, Anael;Nyambo, Devotha
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.364-374
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    • 2022
  • Health information systems (HIS) are facing security challenges on data privacy and confidentiality. These challenges are based on centralized system architecture creating a target for malicious attacks. Blockchain technology has emerged as a trending technology with the potential to improve data security. Despite the effectiveness of this technology, still HIS are suffering from a lack of data privacy and confidentiality. This paper presents a blockchain-based data storage security architecture integrated with an e-Health care system to improve its security. The study employed a qualitative research method where data were collected using interviews and document analysis. Execute-order-validate Fabric's storage security architecture was implemented through private data collection, which is the combination of the actual private data stored in a private state, and a hash of that private data to guarantee data privacy. The key findings of this research show that data privacy and confidentiality are attained through a private data policy. Network peers are decentralized with blockchain only for hash storage to avoid storage challenges. Cost-effectiveness is achieved through data storage within a database of a Hyperledger Fabric. The overall performance of Fabric is higher than Ethereum. Ethereum's low performance is due to its execute-validate architecture which has high computation power with transaction inconsistencies. E-Health care system administrators should be trained and engaged with blockchain architectural designs for health data storage security. Health policymakers should be aware of blockchain technology and make use of the findings. The scientific contribution of this study is based on; cost-effectiveness of secured data storage, the use of hashes of network data stored in each node, and low energy consumption of Fabric leading to high performance.

A Survey of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Healthcare Systems

  • Adwan Alownie Alanazi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2023
  • In the process of remarkable progress in the medical and technical field and activating the role of technology in health care services and applications, and since the safety of medical data and its protection from security violations plays a major role in assessing the security of health facilities and the safety of medical servers Thus, it is necessary to know the cyber vulnerabilities in health information systems and other related services to prevent and address them in addition to obtaining the best solutions and practices to reach a high level of cybersecurity against attackers, especially due to the digital transformation of health care systems and the rest of the dealings. This research is about what cyberattacks are and the purpose of them, in addition to the methods of penetration. Then challenges, solutions and some of the security issues will be discussed in general, and a special highlight will be given to obtaining a safe infrastructure to enjoy safe systems in return.