Learning health systems: An anonymous network routing protocol

Thibaud Ecarot, Benoit Fraikin, Luc Lavoie, Mark McGilchrist, Jean Francois Ethier

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Abstract

Learning Healthcare Systems are an emerging approach to healthcare research as translated into practice. For this purpose, a strong interconnection comes to be a necessity when dealing with healthcare services, research and knowledge transfer all at once. Practically, these connections imply that a routing protocol should guarantee anonymity to entities in compliance with both laws and ethical requirements while restricting the quantity of information obtainable had an entity been compromised. In order to bring more protection and meet all the requirements, a new message routing protocol is offered to allow the use of data access paths and to resist traffic analysis security threats. The protocol protects the addresses and roles pertaining to entities from any lurking malevolent minds by implementing proxies into a mix-network. Moreover, flows of synthetic datasets and contents identifiers are handled separately so as to curb any risk of re-identification. A model of this protocol is provided in the form of a multi-objective optimization problem, natively integrating objectives of minimizing both latency and entropy of the information exchanged. The assessment of this model shows that the constrained separation of data flows has a minimal impact on delay times, which not only reveals to be an acceptable compromise but also significantly increases security in data access.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2021
EditorsJoao Rafael Almeida, Alejandro Rodriguez Gonzalez, Linlin Shen, Bridget Kane, Agma Traina, Paolo Soda, Jose Luis Oliveira
PublisherIEEE
Pages562-567
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665441216
ISBN (Print)9781665431071
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Jul 2021
Event34th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Jun 20219 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Volume2021-June
ISSN (Print)1063-7125

Conference

Conference34th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period7/06/219/06/21

Keywords

  • E-health
  • Privacy
  • Protocols
  • Routing Protocol
  • Secure Data Access

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Computer Science Applications

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