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Nowadays, information and communication technologies are widely used in e-health to deliver services. The most popular communication choice is the Internet, as it offers cheap and worldwide coverage. However, as the technologies grow, the threats also grow in parallel. The threats put the patient’s privacy at risk. Therefore, it is important to make sure that security technologies can cater for the privacy and security needs, whenever communications occur through the Internet. This paper presents a multi-agent based security framework for e-health services. The actors and the type of communications are described and a multi-level communications for the users is introduced. The security requirements and the multi-agent based security approach are modeled and presented in the framework.
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Sulaiman, R., Sharma, D., Ma, W., Tran, D. (2007). A Multi-agent Security Framework for e-Health Services. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_69
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