Building standardized and secure mobile health services based on social media

Trigo, J.D. ; Rubio, Ó.J. ; Martínez-Espronceda, M. ; Alesanco, Á. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; García, J. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Serrano-Arriezu, L.

Resumen: Mobile devices and social media have been used to create empowering healthcare services. However, privacy and security concerns remain. Furthermore, the integration of interoperability biomedical standards is a strategic feature. Thus, the objective of this paper is to build enhanced healthcare services by merging all these components. Methodologically, the current mobile health telemonitoring architectures and their limitations are described, leading to the identification of new potentialities for a novel architecture. As a result, a standardized, secure/private, social-media-based mobile health architecture has been proposed and discussed. Additionally, a technical proof-of-concept (two Android applications) has been developed by selecting a social media (Twitter), a security envelope (open Pretty Good Privacy (openPGP)), a standard (Health Level 7 (HL7)) and an information-embedding algorithm (modifying the transparency channel, with two versions). The tests performed included a small-scale and a boundary scenario. For the former, two sizes of images were tested; for the latter, the two versions of the embedding algorithm were tested. The results show that the system is fast enough (less than 1 s) for most mHealth telemonitoring services. The architecture provides users with friendly (images shared via social media), straightforward (fast and inexpensive), secure/private and interoperable mHealth services.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/electronics9122208

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Electronics 9, 12 (2020), 2208 [26 pp]
ISSN: 2079-9292

Factor impacto JCR: 2.397 (2020)

Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS rank: 93 / 162 = 0.574 (2020) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, APPLIED rank: 88 / 160 = 0.55 (2020) - Q3 - T2
Categ. JCR: ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC rank: 145 / 273 = 0.531 (2020) - Q3 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.36 - Computer Networks and Communications (Q2) - Control and Systems Engineering (Q2) - Signal Processing (Q2) - Hardware and Architecture (Q2) - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FEDER/Construyendo Europa desde Aragón
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T31-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/TIN2016-76770-R

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Ingeniería Telemática (Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com.)