BITCRIME – Prosecution and Prevention of organized financial Crime with virtual Currencies
[:en]The use of virtual currencies is steadily growing. These currencies are independent of central banks, commercial banks, or nations and are traded directly between users, thereby evading traditional methods of government intervention. This makes virtual currencies attractive to actors in organized financial crime. However, until…
Cloud Security and Privacy in the Light of the 2012 EU Data Protection Regulation
The essential characteristics of cloud computing such as elasticity or broad network access provide many economic benefits for their users, but with these benefits also many security and privacy risks come along. These risks can be generally classi ed into legal and technical risks. The upcoming…
Automated Transformation of Semi-Structured Text Elements
aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2012/proceedings/ISHealthcare/17 Interconnected systems, such as electronic health records (EHR), considerably improved the handling and processing of health information while keeping the costs at a controlled level. Since the EHR virtually stores all data in digitized form, personal medical documents are easily and swiftly available when…
PERiMETER – Pseudonymization and Personal Metadata Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Searchable Documents
[:en] The average costs of data leakage are steadily on the rise. Especially in healthcare, the disclosure of sensitive information may have unfavorable consequences for the patient. As a consequence, several data security and access control mechanisms have been introduced, ranging from data encryption to…
Recognition and Privacy Preservation of Paper-Based Health Records
ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/21844 While the digitization of medical data within electronic health records has been introduced in some areas, massive amounts of paper-based health records are still produced on a daily basis. This data has to be stored for decades due to legal reasons but is of…
Recognition and Pseudonymization of Personal Data in Paper-Based Health Records
Recognition and Pseudonymization of Personal Data in Paper-Based Health Records: E-health requires the sharing of patient-related data when and where necessary. Electronic health records (EHR) allow the structured and expandable collection of medical data needed for clinical research studies and thereby not only enable the…
Pseudonymization with Metadata Encryption for Privacy-Preserving Searchable Documents
[:en] The average costs of data leakage are steadily on the rise. As a consequence, several data security and access control mechanisms have been introduced, ranging from data encryption to intrusion detection or role-based access control, doing a great work in protecting sensitive information. However,…
Privacy-Preserving Storage and Access of Medical Data Through Pseudonymization and Encryption
[:en] Privacy-Preserving Storage and Access of Medical Data Through Pseudonymization and Encryption: E-health allows better communication between health care providers and higher availability of medical data. However, the downside of interconnected systems is the increased probability of unauthorized access to highly sensitive records what could…
A Hybrid Approach Integrating Encryption and Pseudonymization for Protecting Electronic Health Records
Federated Health Information Systems (FHIS) integrate autonomous information systems of participating health care providers to facilitate the exchange of Electronic Health Records (EHR), which improve the quality and efficiency of patients‘ care. However, the main problem with collecting and maintaining the sensitive data in electronic…
Data Models for the Pseudonymization of DICOM Data
DICOM has become the most widely implemented and supported communications standard for medical imaging. The security of DICOM relies on the encryption of the communication channels. However, for highly sensitive medical data this is often not sufficient. This paper presents a data model for systems…