HOPPy: Holistic Ontology for Privacy-Preserving in Smart Healthcare environment

Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) have a great impact on improving the quality of patients’ lives and offering advanced healthcare services. In this context, Smart Healthcare (S-healthcare) is an important domain with a massive knowledge base, to perform continuous health monitoring, and to provide hopeful solutions that can effectively give perfect and innovative health-related services to patients. However, due to the diversity of stakeholders involved in patients' care and the huge amount of health data collected by Medical IoT devices, the use of s-healthcare applications raises significant issues and risks in terms of privacy. In this paper, we propose a holistic privacy ontology for privacy-preserving in a S-healthcare environment. Our proposed ontology aims at defining a common privacy vocabulary in order to meet the privacy needs of the different stakeholders especially the accordance of privacy policies with patients' preferences and with the main privacy laws and regulations. Experimental results show that the proposed ontology is feasible for S-healthcare environment.