A platform for secure monitoring and sharing of generic health data in the Cloud

The growing need for the remote caring of patients at home combined with the ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices due to their ubiquitous nature has resulted in many apps being developed to enable mobile telecare. The Cloud, in combination with mobile technologies has enabled doctors to conveniently monitor and assess a patient’s health while the patient is at the comfort of their own home. This demands sharing of health information between healthcare teams such as doctors and nurses in order to provide better and safer care of patients. However, the sharing of health information introduces privacy and security issues which may conflict with HIPAA standards. In this paper, we attempt to address the issues of privacy and security in the domain of mobile telecare and Cloud computing. We first demonstrate a telecare application that will allow doctors to remotely monitor patients via the Cloud. We then use this system as a basis to showcase our model that will allow patients to share their health information with other doctors, nurses or medical professional in a secure and confidential manner. The key features of our model include the ability to handle large data sizes and efficient user revocation

Supporting tele-assistance and tele-monitoring in safety-critical environments

Underground mines are hazardous environments. With more and more high-tech machines being introduced in mines, mine operators are under pressure of keeping machinery running smoothly as well as maintaining safety. To address this issue we have developed a remote guiding system called ReMoTe to allow an offsite expert to guide and monitor real time an onsite mining operator. This system brings offsite expertise to operators when and where it is needed (and in doing so supporting on-the- job training) and in the same time providing operators with the ability to monitor their level of stress (self monitoring) as well as allowing shift supervisor to remotely monitor their staff stress level. In our view the combination of these two services is key to increasing the productivity of the mines while supporting operators’ safety. This paper describes ReMoTe and discusses how safety concerns are addressed in the design and evaluation of it

A new Sharing Paradigm for the Personal Cloud

International audiencePushed by recent legislation and smart disclosure initiatives, personal cloud solutions emerge and hold the promise of giving the control back to the individual on her data. However, this shift leaves the privacy and security issues in user's hands, a role that few people can properly endorse. Considering the inadequacy of existing sharing models, we advocate the definition of a new sharing paradigm dedicated to the personal cloud context. This sharing paradigm, called SWYSWYK (Share What You See with Who You Know), allows to derive intuitive sharing rules from the personal cloud content, to self-administer the subjects and the sensitive permissions, and to visualize the net effects of the sharing policy on the user's personal cloud. We then propose a reference architecture providing the users tangible guarantees about the enforcement of the SWYSWYK policies. An instance of this architecture has been implemented on top of an existing personal cloud platform to demonstrate the practicality of the approach