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Designing an Electronic Health Security System Framework for Authentication with Wi-Fi, Smartphone and 3D Face Recognition Technology

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Information technology for development is the tool that has been around for ages and it is now mainly focusing on making people lives easy including of those in a health sector. However, health practitioners and patients are somehow had not fully experienced this benefits due to sensitive information distribution and security concerns around the distribution of electronic health records. There have been various issues and challenges on security breaches, leakage of confidential patient records and computer attacks which have been raised on security and privacy concerns in electronic health records. The unauthorized access, denial of services, lack of standardization of the system increases mistrust on electronic health record system and makes it very difficult for the parties involved in handling and transmission of patients’ record. Therefore the aim of this paper is to propose an efficient and cost-effective face recognition security framework through Wi-Fi to enable the monitoring and access control on patient record in developing countries.

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Appendix: Acronyms and Definitions

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    E-health- is an electronic patient health record system used to store and help in centralizing the individual’s medical history.

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    Wi-Fi- a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet; uses Ethernet protocol.

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    MAC- a media access control address is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications.

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    IMEI- a unique, number to identify mobile phones and satellite phones.

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    Smartphone- is a mobile phone with an advanced mobile operating system which combines features of a personal computer operating system with other features useful for mobile.

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    3D facial recognition- is technique that uses 3D sensors to capture information about the shape of a face.

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    Drs- General health practitioners.

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    Specialist- a doctor highly skilled in a specific and restricted field of medicine.

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    Nurse- a person who is qualified to treat certain medical conditions without the direct supervision of a doctor.

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    Pharmacist- member of the health care team directly involved with patient care and dispense medicines.

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    URL- Uniform Resource Locator is a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.

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Kalake, L., Yoshida, C. (2018). Designing an Electronic Health Security System Framework for Authentication with Wi-Fi, Smartphone and 3D Face Recognition Technology. In: Belqasmi, F., Harroud, H., Agueh, M., Dssouli, R., Kamoun, F. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries. AFRICATEK 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67837-5_22

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