A Privacy-Preserving Health Data Aggregation Scheme

• Published in: KSII transactions on Internet and information systems 2016, 10(8), , pp.3852-3864
• Main Authors: Liu, Yining, Liu, Gao, Cheng, Chi, Xia, Zhe, Shen, Jian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Access control; Data security; Medical records; Methods; Security management; Technology application; 컴퓨터학
• ISSN: 1976-7277; 1976-7277
• DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2016.08.023

Patients' health data is very sensitive and the access to individual's health data should be strictly restricted. However, many data consumers may need to use the aggregated health data. For example, the insurance companies needs to use this data to setup the premium level for health insurances. Therefore, privacy-preserving data aggregation solutions for health data have both theoretical importance and application potentials. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving health data aggregation scheme using differential privacy. In our scheme, patients' health data are aggregated by the local healthcare center before it is used by data comsumers, and this prevents individual's data from being leaked. Moreover, compared with the existing schemes in the literature, our work enjoys two additional benefits: 1) it not only resists many well known attacks in the open wireless networks, but also achieves the resilience against the human-factor-aware differential aggregation attack; 2) no trusted third party is employed in our proposed scheme, hence it achieves the robustness property and it does not suffer the single point failure problem. Keywords: Health Data Aggregation, Privacy-Preservation, Differential Privacy, Robustness