Privacy Preserving Architecture for Healthcare Information Systems

Protecting patient private data in the healthcare industry is an important subject. However, it is not an easy task. Patient data is important in the process of providing quality healthcare. Therefore, Healthcare regulatory bodies issued regulations that require securing patient information and making it accessible only by authorized users. Today, many digital information systems handle patients' data. However, they introduce some privacy and security concerns. This issue is going to be the focus of this project. In this paper, we design and test a system that allows the sharing of patients' data while addressing privacy concerns by designing a digital information system that restricts access to patients' information only when the patient mobile approves that access. Moreover, the proposed architecture is designed to protect the patients' data from breaches by taking advantage of the availability and flexibility of cloud computing. To test the proposed architecture, a prototype is built and tested. The experiments' results were satisfactory. This project tackles to a big problem in the healthcare industry by utilizing the latest technologies in mobility and cloud computing and data protection.