Towards building a Self-Sovereign Identity Framework for Healthcare

Drifted by the hype of new and efficient machine learning and artificial intelligence models aiming to unlock the information wealth hidden inside heterogeneous datasets across different markets and disciplines, healthcare data are in the center of novel technological advancements in predictive health diagnostics, remote healthcare, assistive leaving and wellbeing. Nevertheless, this emerging market has underlined the necessity of developing new methods and updating existing ones for preserving the privacy of the data and their owners, as well as, ensuring confidentiality and trust throughout the health care data processing pipelines. This paper presents one of the key innovations of a Horizon Europe funded project named "TRUSTEE", which focuses on building a trust and privacy framework for cross-European data exchange by employing a secure and private federated framework to empower companies, organizations, and individuals to securely access data across different disciplines, use and re-use data and metadata to extract knowledge with trust. In particular we present our work on implementing strong authentication and continuous authorization schemes based on the duality of eIDAS trust framework and Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) management to ensure security and trust over authentication, authorization and accounting processes for healthcare.