Abstract—Software interoperability refers to how a software system can be used with other software systems. One of the most relevant challenges in 2017 to reach software interoperability in e-health is to develop a standardized way of identifying patients. The recent Regulation (EU) N. 910/2014, eIDAS for short, enables secure mutual identification between citizens and public authorities, and this is achieved by a cooperative approach defined by the eIDAS Interoperability Architecture. In this paper, we analyze this software architecture and show that it may results in a privacy problem, if the identification procedure regards a health service. Moreover, a solution to this problem is proposed, which is based on a modification of the protocol defined by the eIDAS Interoperability Architecture to reach the goal of the anonymity of the service requested by the patient.
Index Terms—Interoperability, privacy, e-health, eIDAS.
Gianluca Lax is with University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy (e-mail: lax@unirc.it).
Cite: Gianluca Lax, "A Warning on Software Interoperability in e-Health," International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 629-635, 2019.
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