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A Security Labeling Scheme for Privacy Protection in Personal Health Record System (개인건강기록 시스템에서 개인 프라이버시 보호를 위한 보안 레이블 기법)

  • Yi, Myung-Kyu;Yoo, Done-sik;Whangbo, Taeg-Keun
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2015
  • The advent of personal healthcare record(PHR) technology has been changing the uses as well as the paradigm of internet services, and emphasizing the importance of services being personalization. But the problem of user's privacy infringement and leaking user's sensitive medical information is increasing with the fusion of PHR technology and healthcare. In this paper, we propose a security labeling scheme for privacy protection in PHR system. In the proposed scheme, PHR data can be labeled also manually based on patient's request or the security labelling rules. The proposed scheme can be used to control access, specify protective measures, and determine additional handling restrictions required by a communications security policy.

Healthcare Data Supervision and Secrecy in Cloud Computing

  • Hossain, Al Amin;Islam, Md. Motaharul;Aazam, Mohammad;Lee, Seung-Jin;Huh, Eui-Nam
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.695-697
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    • 2013
  • Medical data sharing is increasing due to treatment duplication which increases the cost of medication. Medical healthcare system has been improved to combine with cloud computing. It reduces treatment delay and the medical data error. However, the concern about the privacy protection of medical information is also significant. Medical information is more sensitive than other information because involuntary disclosure can affect in both personal and social life. Privacy cloud brokerage has conquered great attention for solving these problems. Our method provides a security model in the cloud computing environment that facilitates the exchange of medical records between assigned custodians. It allows doctors to obtain a complete patient medical records which can help to avoid duplication, reduce the medical error and healthcare cost as well. In addition, our method offers a trustworthy solution against the privacy violence.

The Study of Design and Implementation of RFID Emergency Medical Information System(REMIS) (RFID와 HL7을 이용한 응급 의료 정보 시스템 설계 및 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Kyu-Seog;Hwang, Sung-Oh;Lee, Hyun-Sook;Yoon, Young-Ro
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.703-712
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we designed the RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) Emergency Medical Information System(REMIS). This REMIS offers the emergency patient's medical information using RFID and HL7(Health Level 7) to an emergency medical technician. In emergency situation as like coma, if the communication, from the patient's current location to the hospital, is possible, REMIS offer the medical information of the patient through REMIS server to an emergency medical technician. In the state of communication blocked, REMIS can offer the patient identification and the emergency information through RFID tag, which the patient wear, to an emergency medical technician. When this system was designed, the protection of the patient's medical information and their privacy was considered, and the HL7 was used to be compatible with another medical systems. Therefore, in this paper, REMIS was designed that it is always possible to offer the emergency patient's information to an emergency medical technician regardless of any communication status and to improve the emergency rescue process, effectively.

Study on Protection and Access Control of Personal Bioinformation in Telemecine Environment (원격의료환경에서 개인생체정보 보호 및 무결성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Soon Seok;Lee, Jae Hyun
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2016
  • By using personal health devices, a type of bio-censor at home and building, for telemedicine, this paper proposes a new method to protect more robust patient's privacy than before scheme [1] by ensuring the integrity and the secure transmission further when it communicates with gateway which collecting bio-information from them. As the suggested method is designed to conform with ISO/IEEE 11073-20601 [2], which is international standard, it considered interoperability with various health devices.

Enhancing Privacy Protection in Steppy Applications through Pseudonymization

  • Nugroho, Heri Arum;Prihatmanto, Ary Setijadi;Rhee, Kyung Hyune
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.763-766
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    • 2015
  • Smart Healthcare System as an Open Platform (Shesop) is an integrated healthcare system and have several features, one of them is Steppy Application. Steppy does count your step and display on Shesop website. In this system security issues are not properly addressed, while Personal Health Record (PHR) patient stored in the cloud platform could be at risk. In fact, the huge electronic information available online, people needs reliable and effective technique for privacy preserving. In order to improve the security of data which are displayed on the Shesop website, so that anyone who access could not tamper without permission. Recently Xu et al. showed a pseudonym scheme using smart card as a solution in e-health systems which uses discrete logarithm problem with cyclic group. In this paper, we adopt their scheme and use it application into smartphone using Near Field Communication (NFC) to construct security in Steppy apps.

Suicide Prevention Policy Guideline Model Considering Privacy Law in Korea

  • Do-Hyun Kwon
    • Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2023
  • Objectives This study aimed to review the Korean Constitution articles 14 and 20 of the "Law on suicide prevention" and investigate public perceptions of specific improvements to suicide prevention policies using results from the Korean 2018 National Survey on Suicide. Methods The questionnaire was designed to analyzing the act restricts sharing of patient information between hospitals, making it difficult to track suicide attempts. The questionnaire was also designed to suggest further medical and normative criteria for objective judgment of continuous follow-up utilizing suicide risk evaluations and proportional principle review that consider patients' and medical staff's basic rights. Results This study identified the result of the 1500 respondents, 79.1% believed that Korea should allow suicide prevention management to be implemented without requiring individual consent to protect suicide attempters. Conclusions According the results, I propose the following criteria for policy improvement: use of anonymized information and non-profit research for technical and ethical considerations, access to medical information only for therapeutic purposes, and use of surgical severity assessment criteria appropriate for Korea.

A Study on Working conditions and Characteristics of Dental Technicians (치과기공사의 근무 환경 및 업무특성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Jae-Sang;Hong, Young-Ho;Choi, Sang-Jun
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.379-390
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to improve the working conditions of dental technicians, through survey for working conditions related to perform one's duty, the extent of personal exposure to substances hazardous and complaint rate and factor of job stress and subjective symptom on musculoskeletal disorders. Methods: Using four types of structured questionnaires: social and demographic factor; the actual conditions of working space; working conditions; and characteristics of dental technicians, respondents filled in the questionnaires and the results were analyzed statistically. Results: The evaluation of comfort in working place found that satisfaction level on indoor noise was the lowest with 2.6 on a five-point scale and privacy space followed 2.8 point. In reasons for dissatisfaction with job, over workload ranked the highest by 25.4% and role overload had the highest by 39.5% in job stress factors. Based on the results, we could draw conclusion that dental technicians were unsatisfied with role overload and heavy workload a day. In reasons for musculoskeletal symptom prevalence, long-patient work was the highest by 24.1%. It was thought to cause dental technicians need deep procession and long-patient work due to the nature of their job. Conclusion: In conclusion, noise reduction and privacy space are required to improve job efficiency of dental technicians. In addition; we need to think of ways to increase the job satisfaction with adequate rest while deep procession and long-patient working.

Privacy Model based on RBAC for U-Healthcare Service Environment (u-헬스케어 환경에서 환자의 무결성을 보장하는 RFID 보안 프로토콜)

  • Rhee, Bong-Keun;Jeong, Yoon-Su;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.605-614
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    • 2012
  • Nowadays u-healthcare which is very sensitive to the character of user's information among other ubiquitous computing field is popular in medical field. u-healthcare deals extremely personal information including personal health/medical information so it is exposed to various weaknees and threats in the part of security and privacy. In this paper, RFID based patient's information protecting protocol that prevents to damage the information using his or her mobile unit illegally by others is proposed. The protocol separates the authority of hospital(doctor, nurse, pharmacy) to access to patient's information by level of access authority of hospital which is registered to management server and makes the hospital do the minimum task. Specially, the management server which plays the role of gateway makes access permission key periodically not to be accessed by others about unauthorized information except authorized information and improves patient's certification and management.

Analyses of Enhancement of Authentication Mechanism for Security and Privacy Under Healthcare System With RFID Application (RFID를 이용한 헬스시스템에서의 정보보안 향상을 인증 메카니즘 분석)

  • Kim, Jung-Tae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2012.10a
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    • pp.154-156
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a user authentication scheme for healthcare application using wireless medical sensor networks, where wireless medical sensors are used for patients monitoring. These medical sensors' sense the patient body data and transmit it to the professionals (e.g., doctors, nurses, and surgeons). Since, the data of an individual are highly vulnerable; it must ensures that patients medical vital signs are secure, and are not exposed to an unauthorized person. In this regards, we have proposed a user1 authentication scheme for healthcare application using medical sensor networks. The proposed scheme includes: a novel two-factor professionals authentication (user authentication), where the healthcare professionals are authenticated before access the patient's body data; a secure session key is establish between the patient sensor node and the professional at the end of user authentication. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the proposed scheme is safeguard to various practical attacks and achieves efficiency at low computation cost.

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A Cell-based Secure Sensor Network supporting Multi-casting Communication for the Application of Telemedicine (의료분야에서 멀티캐스트 통신을 지원하는 셀 기반의 안전한 센서 네트워크 구조)

  • Sung, Ji-Yeon;Choi, Ju-Young;Kim, Myuhng-Joo
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.49-58
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    • 2005
  • We propose a specific ubiquitous sensor network (USN) architecture as a promising candidate of the future telemedicine model which offers the patient's mobility and more cost-efficient medical care system. This new USN architecture is a kind of cell-based secure sensor network supporting encrypted multi-casting communications and it has a hybrid routing protocol by adapting flat routing to hierarchical routing. For the patient's privacy and the protection of patient's vital information from eavesdropping, we adopt a lightweight PKI-based secure communication protocol with some formal presentation on its core procedure.

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