Health Information Tailoring and Data Privacy in a Smart Watch as a Preventive Health Tool

2015 ◽  
pp. 537-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
HongSuk Yoon ◽  
Dong-Hee Shin ◽  
Hyup Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Smart Watch ◽  
Information Tailoring

scholarly journals Ubiquitous Health Management System with Watch-Type Monitoring Device for Dementia Patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongmin Shin ◽  
Dongil Shin ◽  
Dongkyoo Shin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Analysis Algorithm ◽  
Smart Watch ◽  
Dementia Patients ◽  
Type Device ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Server System

For patients who have a senile mental disorder such as dementia, the quantity of exercise and amount of sunlight are an important clue for doses and treatment. Therefore, monitoring daily health information is necessary for patients’ safety and health. A portable and wearable sensor device and server configuration for monitoring data are needed to provide these services for patients. A watch-type device (smart watch) that patients wear and a server system are developed in this paper. The smart watch developed includes a GPS, accelerometer, and illumination sensor, and can obtain real time health information by measuring the position of patients, quantity of exercise, and amount of sunlight. The server system includes the sensor data analysis algorithm and web server used by the doctor and protector to monitor the sensor data acquired from the smart watch. The proposed data analysis algorithm acquires the exercise information and detects the step count in patients’ motion acquired from the acceleration sensor and verifies the three cases of fast pace, slow pace, and walking pace, showing 96% of the experimental results. If developed and the u-Healthcare System for dementia patients is applied, higher quality medical services can be provided to patients.

scholarly journals Comprehensive overview of computer-based health information tailoring: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e019215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azadeh Kamel Ghalibaf ◽  
Elham Nazari ◽  
Mahdi Gholian-Aval ◽  
Hamed Tabesh ◽  
Mahmood Tara
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Computer Tailoring ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Information Tailoring

IntroductionTailoring health information to the needs of individuals has become an important part of modern health communications. Tailoring has been addressed by researchers from different disciplines leading to the emergence of a wide range of approaches, making the newcomers confused. In order to address this, a comprehensive overview of the field with the indications of research gaps, tendencies and trends will be helpful. As a result, a systematic protocol was outlined to conduct a scoping review within the field of computer-based health information tailoring.Methods and analysisThis protocol is based on the York’s five-stage framework outlined by Arksey and O’Malley. A field-specific structure was defined as a basis for undertaking each stage. The structure comprised three main aspects:system design,information communicationandevaluation. Five leading databases were searched: PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, EBSCO and IEEE and a broad search strategy was used with less strict inclusion criteria to cover the breadth of evidence. Theoretical frameworks were used to develop the data extraction form and a rigorous approach was introduced to identify the categories from data. Several explanatory-descriptive methods were considered to analyse the data, from which some were proposed to be employed for the first time in scoping studies.Ethics and disseminationThis study investigates the breadth and depth of existing literature on computer-tailoring and as a secondary analysis, does not require ethics approval. We anticipate that the results will identify research gaps and novel ideas for future studies and provide direction to combine methods from different disciplines. The research findings will be submitted for publication to relevant peer-reviewed journals and conferences targeting health promotion and patient education.

scholarly journals A Fine-Grained User-Divided Privacy-Preserving Access Control Protocol in Smart Watch

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2109
Author(s):  
Liming Fang ◽  
Minghui Li ◽  
Lu Zhou ◽  
Hanyi Zhang ◽  
Chunpeng Ge
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Privacy Preservation ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Data Access Control ◽  
Smart Watch ◽  
Performance And Evaluation

A smart watch is a kind of emerging wearable device in the Internet of Things. The security and privacy problems are the main obstacles that hinder the wide deployment of smart watches. Existing security mechanisms do not achieve a balance between the privacy-preserving and data access control. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained privacy-preserving access control architecture for smart watches (FPAS). In FPAS, we leverage the identity-based authentication scheme to protect the devices from malicious connection and policy-based access control for data privacy preservation. The core policy of FPAS is two-fold: (1) utilizing a homomorphic and re-encrypted scheme to ensure that the ciphertext information can be correctly calculated; (2) dividing the data requester by different attributes to avoid unauthorized access. We present a concrete scheme based on the above prototype and analyze the security of the FPAS. The performance and evaluation demonstrate that the FPAS scheme is efficient, practical, and extensible.

scholarly journals Cloud Data Privacy Preserving Model for Health Information Systems Based on Multi Factor Authentication

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-367
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Clinical Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cost Utility ◽  
Personal Health Information ◽  
Patient Side

With cloud computing (CC) becoming popular in recent years, variety of institutions, organizations, businesses and individual users are creating interest. They are adopting the technology in order to take advantage of shared web applications, low infrastructure cost, utility and distributed computing, cluster computing as well as reliable IT architecture. In the area of health, Cloud Health Information Systems (CHIS) play a key role not only on the healthcare businesses but patients as well. On the patient side, CHIS aid in sharing of medical data and health information, timely access of critical patient information and coordination of clinical services. Patients, who continue to demand for instantaneous and quality healthcare services are now able to access the services from experts even when they are not necessarily in the same physical location. This is being aided by proliferation of telemedicine through hosted cloud architecture. From the business perspective, CC has helped to cut down operational expenses by way of cost-effective clinical information system infrastructure through the implementation of a distributed platform. The platform has therefore saved businesses millions of dollars that would have gone to infrastructural and human resource investment. Even with these immense opportunities, cloud computing uptake has been serious inhibited by the privacy and security concerns. Due to the sensitivity of personal health information, businesses and individuals are apprehensive when it comes to adopting the technology or releasing the data to the cloud. This study is a results discussion of an enhanced model for attainment of data privacy on the cloud through use of multi factor authentication.

scholarly journals Trust and The Acquisition and Use of Public Health Information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Holland ◽  
Jamie Cawthra ◽  
Tamara Schloemer ◽  
Peter Schröder-Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
External Threats ◽  
Trust In Institutions ◽  
The Way

AbstractInformation is clearly vital to public health, but the acquisition and use of public health data elicit serious privacy concerns. One strategy for navigating this dilemma is to build 'trust' in institutions responsible for health information, thereby reducing privacy concerns and increasing willingness to contribute personal data. This strategy, as currently presented in public health literature, has serious shortcomings. But it can be augmented by appealing to the philosophical analysis of the concept of trust. Philosophers distinguish trust and trustworthiness from cognate attitudes, such as confident reliance. Central to this is value congruence: trust is grounded in the perception of shared values. So, the way to build trust in institutions responsible for health data is for those institutions to develop and display values shared by the public. We defend this approach from objections, such as that trust is an interpersonal attitude inappropriate to the way people relate to organisations. The paper then moves on to the practical application of our strategy. Trust and trustworthiness can reduce privacy concerns and increase willingness to share health data, notably, in the context of internal and external threats to data privacy. We end by appealing for the sort of empirical work our proposal requires.

scholarly journals “Smart watch” as a Factor for the Formation of Hybrid Doctor–Patient Communication

Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
S. A. Kravchenko ◽  
K. V. Rakova
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
Smart Watch ◽  
The One ◽  
Background Mode

The relevance of the research derives from the necessity to analyze the influence of new non-human digital actants on the nature of doctor-patients communication. The authors prove that in modern society the digitalization of the healthcare system is proceeding at an accelerated pace and pushes individuals to monitor their health status regularly in background mode by using such digital actants as smartwatches with pre-installed medical applications. The active use of high-tech devices for self-diagnosis of health transforms the doctor-patient communication, making it hybrid and exerting ambivalent influence on the treatment process. On the one hand, individuals can collect health information continuously. However, on the other hand, the study reveals that smartwatches provide users with less accurate health information in comparison with the health information obtained via stationary medical equipment. The use of inaccurate information without the supervision of medical workers may lead to unforeseen consequences and health risks. The results of the content analysis of modern scientific research on the effectiveness of smart devices’ use in online health diagnostics indicate that formal and pragmatic trends take place in doctor-patient communication. In this regard, the authors prove that hybrid social communication in medicine needs a new vector of development in accordance with the principles of the proposed “humanistic turn”.

Online social network use among parents of young childhood cancer survivors.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 82-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Gregory Wilford ◽  
Kathryn Osann ◽  
Lari B. Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Health Behavior Change ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivors ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivorship

82 Background: Online social networks (OSNs) have emerged in the past decade as potentially powerful tools for health information sharing and health behavior change. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 75% of all parents are active on OSNs. Given the high level of need for childhood cancer survivorship health education and preventive health behavior change, OSNs represent key resources for parents to engage with experts and peers over survivorship health. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 114 parents of young and adolescent ( < 13 years) childhood cancer survivors was used to examine parent OSN use in specific platforms. Recruitment was conducted through online social support groups of two childhood cancer non-profits that focus on parent support. The novel online survey investigated OSN frequency of use, history of making new friends in OSNs, and whether OSNs were “good for sharing and receiving reliable and high quality information on diet, physical activity, and other healthy behaviors.” Results: Parents reported high levels of OSN use with 80% reporting daily use. Facebook was the most commonly used OSN by a wide margin. Seventy-eight percent of parents reported using it every day. The next most used OSN was Instagram (15%). Parents reported making new friends on Facebook (86%), followed by Instagram (22%) and Twitter (10%). Among parents who have used the respective OSNs, several were endorsed as being “good” or “extremely good” for sharing survivorship-related preventive health information. Facebook was endorsed by 76% of its users, Twitter and Pinterest by 59%, Google+ by 52%, and Instagram by 40%. None of the demographic variables collected predicted parent OSN use or perception. There was a strong association between parents using OSNs daily and their reporting having made new friends on OSNs (p < .000). Conclusions: Parents of young childhood cancer survivors recruited from online support groups report high levels of OSN use and making new friends through OSNs, and find OSNs potentially good sources for sharing and receiving survivorship-related health information. OSNs in general, and Facebook in particular, represent promising avenues for childhood cancer survivorship health information dissemination.

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