Ensuring adequate security and privacy of health information is a moral and legal mandate of the twenty-first-century healthcare industry that is fast moving towards complete digitalization. As a consequence of increased threats to security of electronic health information, a genuine need for a robust and effective authentication and access control schemes has emerged. Since healthcare systems pose some unique security constraints, especially in case of access control, none of the extant off-the-shelf solutions is directly applicable. In this paper – recognizing the fact that authentication is an indispensable precursor to access control – we address both issues together by proposing a robust authentication scheme and a hybrid access control model for healthcare informatics. We explain the design and implementation of the proposed system, and discuss evaluation results that were found to successfully satisfy various healthcare security requirements.
5th Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Computers and Applications (MIC-CCA 2012)
Congress
2012 Global Congress on Communications, Computers and Applications (GC-CCA 2012), 12-14 October 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
Pages
--1
Topics
Authentication and Authorization Cryptography and Data Security
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{490CCA2012,
title={Security in Healthcare Informatics: Design and Implementation of a Robust Authentication and a Hybrid Access Control Mechanism},
author={Fahim Khan, and Ken Sakamura},
booktitle={2012 Global Congress on Communications, Computers and Applications (GC-CCA 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={--1},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
