Perspectives from the ASCLEPIOS Testbed and Deployment
The cloud ingredients of the ASCLEPIOS TestbedThe ASCLEPIOS Project took on the management of accounts and resources across a mix of private and public clouds, […]
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ASCLEPIOS Architecture Updates
The design of the initial ASCLEPIOS architecture (Feature Image – left) during the early stages of the project was a first step that helped identify […]
Insights from 3rd ASCLEPIOS Awareness Workshop, 11 June 2021
The third ASCLEPIOS Awareness workshop took place on June 11th 2021, as a fully online event. It was part of the awareness workshop series organised […]
Insights into the ASCLEPIOS Awareness Courses
Introduction and backgroundHealthcare information is a key element in modern medical digital environments. Hospitals and clinics are relying more and more often on solutions such […]
Privacy Analytics with APAM
Legal framework of personal data protectionSince 1995, the concern on personal data protection has been stated on laws such as the ‘Data Protection Act’ [1] […]
Privacy-preserving distributed statistics with Emnet
Current health data re-use landscape Health data reuse, which refers to the use of data for purposes other than those for which the data were […]
ASCLEPIOS Access Control Enforcement
The need for a trusted environment in which only the authorized users are permitted to access data is of utmost importance in e-health services. Inadequate […]
ASCLEPIOS 2020 Wrapped
As we are getting closer to the end of 2020, let’s take a look at the highlights of this year for the ASCLEPIOS Project! ASCLEPIOS […]
ASCLEPIOS Interoperability across ITEEs in eHealth
Protecting the confidentiality, integrity and privacy of medical data is crucial for the further development and adoption of eHealth solutions, remote medicine and telecare. At […]
The ASCLEPIOS CEAA Module
Figure 1: View of the default CEAA UI In previous blogposts we have seen how ASCLEPIOS implements advanced data access control mechanisms and leverages powerful […]
The ASCLEPIOS Trusted Execution Environment Platform Deployer
Beyond computational efficiency, modern commodity computing platforms also extensively consider security aspects of program execution. Thus, mostly such platforms commonly contain dedicated hardware and firmware […]
Cloud Computing: Private vs Public
Cloud computing comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the biggest differentiators between different cloud infrastructures today is the distinction between public clouds and […]
Functional Encryption in ASCLEPIOS
In previous series, we have seen how ASCLEPIOS employs state of the art cryptographic schemes, such as ABE and SSE, to offer functionalities that rely […]
The ASCLEPIOS Access Control Mechanisms and Models Editor
Since the early days of cloud computing the security of an environment which grants access rights only to authorized users was of prime importance. Even […]
Isolated and Trusted Execution Environments in Healthcare
An Isolated and Trusted Execution Environment (ITEE) is a security component present in many modern computer systems. It provides a higher level of security where […]
Insights from attribute-based encryption and ciphertext delegation schemes
Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a relatively recent approach that reconsiders the concept of public-key cryptography. In traditional public-key cryptography, a message is […]
Context-aware access control in ASCLEPIOS
The ASCLEPIOS context-aware security model consists of classes and properties that can serve as background knowledge for creating access control rules for Electronic Health Records […]
Insights from searchable encryption schemes and their application in ASCLEPIOS
What is Symmetric Searchable Encryption? Symmetric Searchable Encryption (SSE) is a promising encryption technique that squarely fits the cloud paradigm and can pave the way […]
Towards secure eHealth – The ASCLEPIOS Architecture
A vision for eHealth Imagine if users of a cloud-based e-Health service were able to store all their medical records online and get certain guarantees that […]
Eliciting healthcare providers’ requirements for a cloud-based e-health framework
Introduction In this blogpost we will get to know what a healthcare provider expects from a cloud-based e-health framework, such as ASCLEPIOS. These requirements are […]
IT and security requirements in healthcare
Current efforts to digitalize different aspects of healthcare, the transformation to “e-health”, will have a great impact on the development of the healthcare sector. But […]
ASCLEPIOS Data handling and ethical issues
ASCLEPIOS aims to innovatively combine and extend existing encryption approaches to build a secure cloud-based e-health framework. The results of the project will be demonstrated […]
Intro to ASCLEPIOS Demonstrators – part 3: Privacy-preserving monitoring and benchmarking of antibiotics prescriptions
The article describes one of the three demonstrators of the ASCLEPIOS project. The demonstrator has been developed by the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research. Antibiotics […]
Intro to ASCLEPIOS Demonstrators – part 2 Inpatient and outpatient sleep medicine
Sleep medicine relies on the measurement of overnight multidimensional biosignals and audiovisual recordings. For inpatients, a diagnostic procedure is called polysomnography, which consists of several […]
Intro to ASCLEPIOS Demonstrators – part 1: Stroke acute care
Stroke is a condition where poor blood flow in the brain results in cell death. This can lead to a part of the brain not […]
The ASCLEPIOS vision – Making the cloud a secure place for eHealth services
The potential of eHealth The healthcare sector is undergoing a massive digital transformation and eHealth stands in the spotlight. Although the core idea in the […]