Elderly health care - security and privacy issue

Kaiyu Wan, Vangalur Alagar*, Peter Oyikanmi

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The current trend in offering universal health care based on open distributed health care network which will provide health care to elderly, socially and economically weak population, and physically challenged patients has lead to rapid digitization of health care data, and wireless medium for data communication. Although it has many advantages and has immense potential to improve health care availability, it has created many challenges in maintaining health care services, in particular in offering security and privacy of the most vulnerable members of society who are the elderly. In this paper we identify the current status of elderly care, their vulnerabilities, and challenges faced to offer them health care in total privacy and dignity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Science - 3rd International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2017, Proceedings
EditorsXianhua Song, Wei Xie, Zeguang Lu, Beiji Zou, Min Li, Hongzhi Wang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages276-291
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9789811063848
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event3rd International Conference of Pioneer Computer Scientists, Engineers, and Educators, ICPCSEE 2017 - Changsha, China
Duration: 22 Sept 201724 Sept 2017

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume727
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference of Pioneer Computer Scientists, Engineers, and Educators, ICPCSEE 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period22/09/1724/09/17

Keywords

  • Big data
  • Elderly
  • Health care
  • Privacy
  • Security

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