Information security for social support services

• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Marco Filipe Pinheiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25123
• topic: Security; Blockchain; Integrity; Logging; Auditing; Access control; Authorization; ABAC; XACML; FHIR; HL7; Healthcare; Electronic health records

Over the years, more people want their information available digitally, since it is more convenient, economical and faster to access than the physical format. However, there may be consequences in taking this action. How do we prevent certain people from gaining access to more sensitive data, or how do we ensure that there is no unauthorized manipulation of certain information? When developing a program that deals with private data transmissions, these are one of the many concerns of any programmer and should be well thought out and resolved. In this document we will analyze one possible solution for one of the most important components of any platform, the logging/auditing and respective access control, where one presents a technology that is not yet widely present outside its main area of application. The goal is to make it clear that it is feasible to use a technology that has been created for a specific purpose and to apply it in totally different scenarios. The platform that will be used as a basis for applying these ideas and concepts will be an application whose purpose is to assist its users and allowing them to communicate quickly and directly between them and their respective caregivers and that also will handle electronic health records.