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MicroShare: Privacy-Preserved Medical Resource Sharing through MicroService Architecture
This paper takes up the problem of medical resource sharing through
MicroService architecture without compromising patient privacy. To achieve this
goal, we suggest refactoring the legacy EHR systems into autonomous
MicroServices communicating by the unified techniques such as RESTFul web
service. This lets us handle clinical data queries directly and far more
efficiently for both internal and external queries. The novelty of the proposed
approach lies in avoiding the data de-identification process often used as a
means of preserving patient privacy. The implemented toolkit combines software
engineering technologies such as Java EE, RESTful web services, JSON Web Tokens
to allow exchanging medical data in an unidentifiable XML and JSON format as
well as restricting users to the need-to-know principle. Our technique also
inhibits retrospective processing of data such as attacks by an adversary on a
medical dataset using advanced computational methods to reveal Protected Health
Information (PHI). The approach is validated on an endoscopic reporting
application based on openEHR and MST standards. From the usability perspective,
the approach can be used to query datasets by clinical researchers,
governmental or non-governmental organizations in monitoring health care and
medical record services to improve quality of care and treatment.Comment: Extended from our conference paper: arXiv:1501.0591