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    The document introduces the motivation for designing a secure e-health portal system. It notes that traditional portal systems have difficulties integrating heterogeneous e-health services and meeting necessary security requirements. The key issues are around privacy breaches from inappropriate disclosure of patient data, and threats to patient health from improper medical records or denial of services. The proposed solution adopts a service-oriented design and tackles security challenges like authentication, authorization, trust management between patients and doctors, and preserving privacy.

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    The document introduces the motivation for designing a secure e-health portal system. It notes that traditional portal systems have difficulties integrating heterogeneous e-health services and meeting necessary security requirements. The key issues are around privacy breaches from inappropriate disclosure of patient data, and threats to patient health from improper medical records or denial of services. The proposed solution adopts a service-oriented design and tackles security challenges like authentication, authorization, trust management between patients and doctors, and preserving privacy.

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    The document introduces the motivation for designing a secure e-health portal system. It notes that traditional portal systems have difficulties integrating heterogeneous e-health services and meeting necessary security requirements. The key issues are around privacy breaches from inappropriate disclosure of patient data, and threats to patient health from improper medical records or denial of services. The proposed solution adopts a service-oriented design and tackles security challenges like authentication, authorization, trust management between patients and doctors, and preserving privacy.

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    The document introduces the motivation for designing a secure e-health portal system. It notes that traditional portal systems have difficulties integrating heterogeneous e-health services and meeting necessary security requirements. The key issues are around privacy breaches from inappropriate disclosure of patient data, and threats to patient health from improper medical records or denial of services. The proposed solution adopts a service-oriented design and tackles security challenges like authentication, authorization, trust management between patients and doctors, and preserving privacy.

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    CHAPTER ONE

    Introduction

    1.1 Background

    “e-Health is an emerging field in the intersection of medical informatics, public health and

    business, referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet

    and related technologies”

    The healthcare industry is undergoing fundamental changes. Examples of such changes

    include a shift from hospital-centric services to a more ambulatory system (with homecare, day

    care clinics, and so on) and the treatment of chronic diseases that actively involves the patient

    himself/herself. The emergence of Web-based e-Health portals is a natural result of such

    changes because such portals provide patients and healthcare professionals easy accesses to

    information no matter where they are. According to a recent survey, most patients say they are

    very interested in and capable of accessing healthcare information and services via a Web-based

    portal system

    1.2 Motivation

    The design of e-Health portal is, however, particularly challenging due to its unique

    functionality and security requirements. First, a traditional design of portal systems will

    encounter difficulties in integrating heterogeneous e-Health services implemented with different

    technologies. The complexity of such integration will make it difficult to extend an existing

    system with new services. Second, a general purpose Web-based portal usually cannot meet the

    security requirements of an e-Health portal system because the consequence of a security breach

    is far more serious in the latter. For example, an inappropriate disclosure of patient data will lead

    to privacy breaches and legal issues, whereas an improper modification to diagnosis results or a
    denial of critical healthcare service may threaten a patient’s health or even his/her life.

    We address the above issues through the design and implementation of a secure Web-based e-
    Health portal. To meet the functional requirements, we adopt a service-oriented approach to the
    design of our portal. We then tackle various security issues involved in such a design. More
    specifically, we outline our solutions for authentication and authorization of users for local and
    remote services in different operating modes, for trust management between patients and doctors
    using PKI and biometrics, and for preserving patients’ privacy through preference negotiation
    and database technology. We also discuss implementation issues of the proposed portal system

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