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Time is critical in acute stroke care: within a very small timeframe of emergency treatment, health professionals need to identify the type of stroke and […]

Antibiotic resistance is an increasing worldwide public health problem that is getting worldwide attention. There are international initiatives towards reducing inappropriate antibiotic use in general, […]

Sleep is an important factor in human health and is crucial for an effective immune system. Sleep disturbance – for example, due to cultural habits […]

The outputs of the project, namely the ASCLEPIOS framework and its underlying components possess a great value for healthcare organisations and there is a big […]

When performing research on cutting-edge IT infrastructure for healthcare, from time to time – or actually all the time – one needs to validate and […]

The growth of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms offers the predictive power that is useful in many applications. Deep Learning (DL) is a subset of ML […]

In one of our early blogposts we presented the results of the early ethical assessment conducted in the context of ASCLEPIOS, and the approach that […]

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, […]

The design of the initial ASCLEPIOS architecture (Feature Image – left) during the early stages of the project was a first step that helped identify […]

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 […]

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 […]

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] […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 comes in many shapes and sizes. One of the biggest differentiators between different cloud infrastructures today is the distinction between public clouds and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 potential of eHealth The healthcare sector is undergoing a massive digital transformation and eHealth stands in the spotlight. Although the core idea in the […]