Cybersecurity and privacy issues for socially integrated mobile healthcare applications operating in a multi-cloud environment

Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Basit Shahzad, Kashif Saleem, Wasif Jameel, Mehmet A. Orgun*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Social media has enabled information-sharing across massively large networks of people without spending much financial resources and time that are otherwise required in the print and electronic media. Mobile-based social media applications have overwhelmingly changed the information-sharing perspective. However, with the advent of such applications at an unprecedented scale, the privacy of the information is compromised to a larger extent if breach mitigation is not adequate. Since healthcare applications are also being developed for mobile devices so that they also benefit from the power of social media, cybersecurity privacy concerns for such sensitive applications have become critical. This article discusses the architecture of a typical mobile healthcare application, in which customized privacy levels are defined for the individuals participating in the system. It then elaborates on how the communication across a social network in a multi-cloud environment can be made more secure and private, especially for healthcare applications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)315-329
Number of pages15
JournalHealth Informatics Journal
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2019

Keywords

  • cybersecurity
  • healthcare
  • multi-cloud environment
  • privacy
  • social networks

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