A Blockchain-Based Scheme for Access Control in e-Health Scenarios

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Hugo Sereno Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Ângelo Martins (Author) Other; João Pedro Dias (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Pages: 238-247

10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR 2018

13 December 2018 through 15 December 2018

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Scopus - 10 Citations

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Q-EC5

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17065-3_24

Abstract (EN): Access control is a crucial part of a system¿s security, restricting what actions users can perform on resources. Therefore, access control is a core component when dealing with e-Health data and resources, discriminating which is available for a certain party. We consider that current systems that attempt to assure the share of policies between facilities are mostly centralized, being prone to system¿s and network¿s faults and do not assure the integrity of policies lifecycle. Using a blockchain as store system for access policies we are able to ensure that the different entities have knowledge about the policies in place while maintaining a record of all permission requests, thus assuring integrity, auditability and authenticity. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10