Light-weight accountable privacy preserving (LAPP) protocol to determine dishonest role of third party auditor in cloud auditing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ben Haj Frej ◽  
Julius Dichter ◽  
Navarun Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Cloud Auditing

Light-weight and privacy-preserving secure cloud auditing scheme for group users via the third party medium

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenting Shen ◽  
Jia Yu ◽  
Hui Xia ◽  
Hanlin Zhang ◽  
Xiuqing Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Party ◽  
Cloud Auditing

Health Care

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Medical Expenditure ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Care Systems

This chapter reviews the public health care systems as well as their challenges. It first shows how expenditure on health care has evolved in previous decades and deals with the reasons for the growth observed in almost every European country. It emphasizes the role of technological progress as a main explanatory factor of the increase in medical expenditure but also points to the challenges facing cost-containment policies. Especially, the main common features of health care systems in Europe, such as third-party payment, single provider approach and cost-based reimbursement are discussed. Finally the chapter shows that although inequalities in health exist in the population, health care systems are redistributive. Reforms are thus needed but the trade-off between budgetary efficiency and equity is difficult.

Death, taxes and uncertainty: Economic motivations in end-of-life decision making

2021 ◽  
pp. 147775092110114
Author(s):  
George Slade Mellgard ◽  
Jacob M Appel
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
End Of Life Decision ◽  
Death Taxes

Economic motivations are key drivers of human behavior. Unfortunately, they are largely overlooked in literature related to medical decisionmaking, particularly with regard to end-of-life care. It is widely understood that the directions of a proxy acting in bad faith can be overridden. But what of cases in which the proxy or surrogate appears to be acting in good faith to effectuate the patient’s values, yet doing so directly serves the decision-maker’s financial interests? Such situations are not uncommon. Many patients care as deeply about economic wellbeing of their families as they do for their own lives and health. This brief work examines three scenarios that raise ethical issues regarding the role of pecuniary motives in making critical medical decisions. Each scenario presents a potential financial conflict of interest between an incapacitated patient and a third-party decision-maker and offers a framework for integrating ethical and legal concerns into clinical care. It is our hope that this work prepares physicians for unexpected ethical conflicts of interest and enables them to further the interests of his or her patients.

ILSSPP: Intelligent location sharing system with privacy preserving features for smart cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Gokay Saldamli ◽  
Richard Chow ◽  
Hongxia Jin
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Location Information ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Location Sharing ◽  
Social Network Structure

Social networking services are increasingly accessed through mobile devices. This trend has prompted services such as Facebook and Google+to incorporate location as a de facto feature of user interaction. At the same time, services based on location such as Foursquare and Shopkick are also growing as smartphone market penetration increases. In fact, this growth is happening despite concerns (growing at a similar pace) about security and third-party use of private location information (e.g., for advertising). Nevertheless, service providers have been unwilling to build truly private systems in which they do not have access to location information. In this paper, we describe an architecture and a trial implementation of a privacy-preserving location sharing system called ILSSPP. The system protects location information from the service provider and yet enables fine grained location-sharing. One main feature of the system is to protect an individual’s social network structure. The pattern of location sharing preferences towards contacts can reveal this structure without any knowledge of the locations themselves. ILSSPP protects locations sharing preferences through protocol unification and masking. ILSSPP has been implemented as a standalone solution, but the technology can also be integrated into location-based services to enhance privacy.

The Role of Formal Third-Party Endorsements and Informal Self-Proclaiming Signals in Nonprofit Reputation Building

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1092-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgen Willems ◽  
Carolin J. Waldner ◽  
Yasemin I. Dere ◽  
Yuka Matsuo ◽  
Kevin Högy
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Reputation Building

Caveat Emptor: The Role of Suboptimal Bronchoscope Repair Practices by a Third-Party Vendor in a Pseudo-Outbreak ofPseudomonasin Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimens

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Cosgrove ◽  
Polly Ristaino ◽  
Anne Caston-Gaa ◽  
Donna P. Fellerman ◽  
Elaine F. Nowakowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Caveat Emptor ◽  
Proprietary Information

Objective.To describe a pseudo-outbreak associated with loose bronchoscope biopsy ports caused by inadequate bronchoscope repair practices by third-party vendors and to alert healthcare personnel to assess bronchoscope repair practices.Design.Outbreak investigation.Setting.A 925-bed tertiary care hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.Patients.Patients who underwent bronchoscopy with certain bronchoscopes after they had been repaired by a third-party vendor.Methods.An epidemiologic investigation was conducted to determine the cause ofPseudomonas putidagrowth in 4 bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens within a 3-day period in May 2008. All bronchoscopes were inspected, and cultures were obtained from bronchoscopes and the environment. Bronchoscope cleaning and maintenance practices were reviewed. Microbiologic results from BAL specimens and medical records were reviewed to find additional cases.Results.All 4 case patients had undergone bronchoscopy with one of 2 bronchoscopes, both of which had loose biopsy ports. Bronchoscope cultures grewP. putida, Pseudomonas aeruginosa,andStenotrophomonas.TheP. putidastrains from the bronchoscopes matched those from the patients. Specimens from 12 additional patients who underwent bronchoscopy with these bronchoscopes grewP. putida, P. aeruginosa,orStenotrophomonas.No patients developed clinical signs or symptoms of infection, but 7 were treated with antibiotics. Investigation revealed that the implicated bronchoscopes had been sent to an external vendor for repair; examination by the manufacturer revealed irregularities in repairs and nonstandard part replacements.Conclusions.Third-party vendors without access to proprietary information may contribute to mechanical malfunction of medical devices, which can lead to contamination and incomplete disinfection.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol2012;33(3):224-229

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