Cloud computing paradigm in which the consumer can use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from various client devices through a thin client interface such as a Web browser (e.g., Web-based email). The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited user-specific application configuration settings.
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Home Healthcare in Cloud Computing
Mina Deng (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands), Milan Petkovic (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands), Marco Nalin (Scientific Institute Hospital San Raffaele, Italy), and Ilaria Baroni (Scientific Institute Hospital San Raffaele, Italy)
Copyright: © 2013
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch032
Abstract
Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies that has an increasing impact on both private and public sectors. It represents an on-demand service model for delivering computing resources ranging from storage and data access, via computation and software provisioning. This chapter describes an application of Cloud Computing in home healthcare by introducing several use cases and application architecture based on the cloud. A comprehensive methodology is used to integrate security and privacy engineering process into the development lifecycle and to identify challenges for building security and privacy in the proposed cloud-based home healthcare system. Moreover, a functional infrastructure plan is provided to demonstrate the integration between the proposed application architecture with the cloud infrastructure. Finally, this chapter discusses several mitigation techniques putting the focus on patient-centric control and policy enforcement via cryptographic technologies, and consequently on digital rights management and attribute-based encryption technologies.