Security and privacy issues in e-health cloud-based system: A comprehensive content analysis
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Date
2019-04-25
Authors
Azeez, Nureni Ayofe
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Elsevier
Abstract
services in all sectors in the world. Specifically, Information Technology (IT) has led to a very vital innovation
in health sector called electronic health (e-Health). In order to optimize full and excellent benefits
of this innovation, its implementation in a cloud-based environment is important. However, with noticeable
and numerous benefits inherent from e-Health in a cloud computing, its full utilization is still being
hampered by challenges of security and privacy. In this paper, we focused on extensive review of current
and existing literatures of various approaches and mechanisms being used to handle security and privacy
related matters in e-Health. Strengths and weaknesses of some of these approaches were enunciated. The
literature review was carried out after selecting over One Hundred and Ten (1 1 0) original articles and
figured out several models adopted in their solutions. After comparing models used, we arrived at the
reviewed articles. Reviewed articles were narrowed down to the current number because of similarity
observed in the models adopted by some researchers. Also, we give an acceptable and standard definition
of e-Health. Effort was made to classify cloud-based models. Security and privacy requirements as recommended
by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) were also discussed and provided.
Remarks and recommendations were made regarding the review process and future directions
on security and privacy of e-Health in cloud computing was also provided. Finally, authors propose a
secured and dependable architecture for electronic health that could guarantee efficiency, reliability
and regulated access framework to health information. The architecture, though is currently under implementation,
will guarantee absolute security and privacy between healthcare providers and the patients.
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Keywords
E-Health, Security and privacy, Cloud Vulnerability and Access control
Citation
N.A Azeez and C.V der Vyver (2019) “Security and Privacy Challenges in E-Health Cloud-Based System: A Detailed Content Analysis”, accepted by Egyptian Informatics Journal (Elsevier and Scopus Indexed)