Four PANACEA partners have contributed a paper in the frontiers in digital health series on connected health: status and trends. This paper, entitled Emerging and established trends to support secure health information exchange, provides information, guidelines, established practices and standards, and an extensive evaluation on new and promising technologies for the implementation of a Secure Information Sharing Platform for health-related data. It explores health information sharing within the concept of PANACEA project which facilitates the design, implementation, and deployment of such a platform.

Paper overview:

  • Provides evidence for advanced and novel implementation strategies for a state-of-the-art information sharing environment.
  • Describes high-level requirements for the transfer of data between different health care organisations or cross-border. 
  • Gives an overview of technologies to support the secure interconnectivity and trust between IT systems participating in a sharing-data “community”.
  • Covers standards, guidelines, and interoperability specifications for implementing a common understanding and integration in the sharing of clinical information.
  • Outlines the use of cloud computing and prospectively more advanced technologies such as Blockchain. The technologies described and the possible implementation approaches are presented in the design of an innovative secure information sharing platform in the healthcare domain.

Authors:

  • Emmanouil G. Spanakis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece.
  • Stelios Sfakianakis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece.
  • Silvia Bonomi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
  • Claudio Ciccotelli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale Antonio Ruberti Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.
  • Sabina Magalini, Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy. 
  • Vangelis Sakkalis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Greece. 

 

Keywords: Interoperability, health information exchange, eHealth, Blockchain, security, patient consent.

Link to paper in frontiers in digital health: Emerging and established trends to support secure health information exchange