title: The challenge for security and privacy services in distributed health settings.
abstract: The health care sector is quickly exploiting Information and Communication Technologies towards the provision of e-health services. According to recent surveys, one of the most severe restraining factors for the proliferation of e-health is the (lack of) security measures required to assure both service providers and patients that their relationship and transactions will be carried out in privacy, correctly, and timely. A large number of individuals are not willing to engage in e-health (or are only participating at a reduced level) simply because they do not trust the e-health service providers' sites and the underlying information and communication technologies to be secure enough. This paper considers privacy and security issues and challenges for e-health applications.
authors: University of Piraeus, Greece. ska@unipi.gr
authors: Sokratis
authors: S
authors: Katsikas
authors: Javier
authors: J
authors: Lopez
authors: Günther
authors: G
authors: Pernul
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security / Q000592:standards*; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000592:standards*; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D035502:Trust