End-to-end security for personal telehealth

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Cybersecurity
• Patient Empowerment

Background:

• Personal telehealth is rapidly advancing, integrating innovative applications for disease management.
• It enables individuals to actively participate in their healthcare via open, distributed health service systems.
• This paradigm shift introduces significant end-to-end security and privacy challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

• To define novel end-to-end security requirements for personal telehealth.
• To present a robust design for consent management within the Continua Health Alliance architecture.
• To empower patients with control over their health information sharing and usage.

Main Methods:

• Introduction of new end-to-end security requirements.
• Design and presentation of a consent management framework.
• Contextualization within the Continua Health Alliance architecture.

Main Results:

• Established comprehensive end-to-end security requirements tailored for personal telehealth.
• Developed a functional design for consent management.
• Demonstrated a mechanism for patient-driven control over health data.

Conclusions:

• The proposed security requirements and consent management design address critical privacy and security challenges in personal telehealth.
• Patients are empowered to manage their health data sharing effectively.
• This contributes to a more secure and patient-centric personal telehealth ecosystem.