Privacy in Smart Health
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Cybersecurity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 5601
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart technology plays an important role in our everyday lives. It allows us to communicate, conduct business, and perform tasks remotely. Smart health is no exception, as it continues to make profound impacts on telemedicine, telehealth, and well-being. Telemedicine provides clinical services where patients can be diagnosed and treated at a distance, whereas telehealth offers healthcare services remotely. Smart health devices are used to monitor patient's vital signs (e.g., glucose, heart rate, and blood pressure). By enabling self-monitoring and data access to users and healthcare professions, smart health can increase healthy behaviors, timely treatments, reduce hospital visits/re-admissions, and save lives.
Despite many great benefits, smart health comes with new risks of privacy breaches and information leakages during data sharing and dissemination in which the user may lose control of their personal data without knowing, especially when a third party is involved. Furthermore, when coupled with additional data, one can infer the re-identification of individuals and their sensitive information.
This Special Issue welcomes research relevant to all areas of privacy in smart health. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Privacy-preserving techniques;
- De-anonymization;
- Anonymity and privacy measures;
- Privacy management of healthcare and clinical services;
- AI-based social inference and automated integrity and privacy.
Dr. Rattikorn Hewett
Guest Editor
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