Conflict-Free Access Rules for Sharing Smart Patient Health Records

Matthew Banton*, Juliana Bowles, Agastya Silvina, Thais Webber

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

Abstract

With an increasing trend in personalised healthcare provision across Europe, we need solutions to enable the secure transnational sharing of medical records, establishing granular access rights to personal patient data. Access rules can establish what should be accessible by whom for how long, and comply with collective regulatory frameworks, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The challenge is to design and implement such systems integrating novel technologies like Blockchain and Data Lake to enhance security and access control. The blockchain module must deal with adequate policies and algorithms to guarantee that no data leaks occur when authorising data retrieval requests. The data lake module tackles the need for an efficient way to retrieve potential granular data from heterogeneous data sources. In this paper, we define a patient-centric authorisation approach, incorporating a structured format for composing access rules that enable secure data retrieval and automatic rules conflict checking.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRules and Reasoning - 5th International Joint Conference, RuleML+RR 2021, Proceedings
EditorsSotiris Moschoyiannis, Rafael Peñaloza, Jan Vanthienen, Ahmet Soylu, Dumitru Roman
PublisherSpringer
Pages33-47
Number of pages15
Volume12851
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-91167-6
ISBN (Print)9783030911669
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022
Event5th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2021 - Leuven, Belgium
Duration: 13 Sept 202115 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12851 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2021
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityLeuven
Period13/09/2115/09/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research is funded by the EU H2020 project Serums (Securing Medical Data in Smart Patient-Centric Healthcare Systems), grant code 826278.

Keywords

  • Access rules
  • Blockchain
  • Data lake
  • Healthcare systems
  • Patient health records

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