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An Approach Towards Privacy and Security in Pervasive Healthcare System

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Pervasive Healthcare

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This digital era is facing an exponential proliferation of the number of advanced hardware- and sophisticated software-based solutions which are capable of interacting with the users, collecting, accessing, and analyzing the range of data about us, in nearly every sensitive area of our lives,. These types of the data and the traced information interpreted out of it are frequently too private and confidential to be accessed by unauthorized and unwanted hands, thus making users worry about the privacy of their data that are continuously being collected through these digital platforms. In recent years, the availability and use of the advanced Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) systems have increased rapidly. During the treatment process, more health datasets have been developed in healthcare sectors such as hospitals and other laboratories. For the sake of improving the quality of healthcare services, these documents depending on their specifications when exchanged can be used by many people. As the outcome, serious security and privacy issues are experienced, which indeed is a matter of high concern and must be monitored and reduced in order to make the effective use of EHR. Numerous studies and research have been performed earlier to improve the security and privacy requirements in the e-healthcare sectors. In this paper, a systematic analysis is carried out by observing and analyzing prior existing models and approaches that have been suggested for e-healthcare systems’ protection and privacy. To protect and promote the privacy of e-healthcare sectors, an intelligence-based security and privacy model is also proposed. This approach focuses on different issues of protection and privacy faced by the e-healthcare community and also frames certain mechanisms to protect it. In order to maintain and enhance security and privacy in the pervasive healthcare systems, our approach along with a collection of access control mechanisms and various encryption techniques may also be considered in the future research direction.

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Siddiqui, N., Abbas, S.H. (2022). An Approach Towards Privacy and Security in Pervasive Healthcare System. In: Husain, M.S., Adnan, M.H.B.M., Khan, M.Z., Shukla, S., Khan, F.U. (eds) Pervasive Healthcare. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77746-3_6

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