Enabling location privacy and medical data encryption in patient telemonitoring systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 946-954

  Maglogiannis, Ilias ^a   Kazatzopoulos, Leonidas ^b   Delakouridis, Konstantinos ^b   Hadjiefthymiades, Stathes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biosignals encryption; Data security; Location based services; Privacy; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

BIOSIGNALS ENCRYPTION; COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY; DATA ENCRYPTION; DATA SECURITY; EMERGENCY SITUATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOLS; PRIVACY; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REMOTE LOCATION; SECURE TRANSMISSION; TELEMONITORING SYSTEMS;

DATA PRIVACY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY; PHOTOTRANSISTORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELEMEDICINE;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PATIENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70449562525     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.2011155     Document Type: Article

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