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Smart Home Solutions: Privacy Issues

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Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being

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Smart home solutions enable access to health-care services to patients by the use of ubiquitous, smart devices or sensors, at the convenience of their home. As in any health-care IT infrastructure, sensitive health information of a patient is processed and transmitted to third parties, increasing the risk of a privacy breach. The smart home environment, due to its pervasive nature, augments such privacy challenges and poses requirements for the devices and software designed. In this chapter, we identify privacy requirements for this environment, and we map requirements to existing solutions. The chapter concludes with identified priorities and challenges for future work.

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  1. Information Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection Research Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business, 76 Patission Ave., Athens, GR-10434, Greece

    Marianthi Theoharidou, Nikolaos Tsalis & Dimitris Gritzalis

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  1. Fontys EGT – Centre for Healthcare and Technology, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Joost van Hoof

  2. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

    George Demiris

  3. Institute of allied health professions, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Eveline J.M. Wouters

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Theoharidou, M., Tsalis, N., Gritzalis, D. (2017). Smart Home Solutions: Privacy Issues. In: van Hoof, J., Demiris, G., Wouters, E. (eds) Handbook of Smart Homes, Health Care and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01583-5_5

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