Improving real-time data streaming security to promote patient and physician socialization

Hitesh Sachdev, Hayden Wimmer, Lei Chen

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Abstract

Promoting the socialization of personal health information (PHI) via sharing presents challenges due to confidentiality and privacy protections required by individuals and mandated by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Sharing PHI facilitates improved clinical decision support and evidence based medicine. The volume, variety, veracity and velocity of PHI is increasing with the advent and commercialization of wearable sensor technology requiring the streaming of real-time personal health data. In order to promote sharing of streaming, sensor-based PHI security and performance are demanded. In response to these concerns, this work instantiates and demonstrates a method to secure streaming of data via RC4 encryption while improving its security by incorporating variable length cipher strength via a proposed PRGA key rotation method. To facilitate this method, multiple keys can be transmitted over disparate mediums or channels in an extension to RC4, dubbed RC4 modified (RC4m). This work serves as an important step toward efficient and secure transmission of PHI to promote sharing in a social context between patient and physician.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conferences on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2016, Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2016 and Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2016
EditorsZhipeng Cai, Guangchun Luo, Liang Cheng, Rafal Angryk, Yingshu Li, Anu Bourgeois, Wenzhan Song, Xiaojun Cao, Bhaskar Krishnamachari
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages309-316
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781509039364
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 26 2016
Event6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2016, 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2016 and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2016 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Oct 8 2016Oct 10 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conferences on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2016, Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2016 and Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2016

Conference

Conference6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2016, 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2016 and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications, SustainCom 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period10/8/1610/10/16

Keywords

  • Cipher
  • Cryptography
  • Data privacy
  • Encryption
  • PHI
  • RC4
  • Random number generation

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