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Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries
Includes bibliographical references.
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2015
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| author | Ssembatya, Richard |
| author2 | Kayem, Anne |
| author_browse | Kayem, Anne Ssembatya, Richard |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13035 Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries Ssembatya, Richard Kayem, Anne Marsden, Gary Computer Science Includes bibliographical references. While there has been an increase in the design and development of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems in the developed world, little has been done to explore the utility of these systems in the developing world. Despite the usual problems of poor infrastructure, PHR systems designed for the developing world need to conform to users with different models of security and literacy than those designed for developed world. This study investigated a PHR system distributed across mobile devices with a security model and an interface that supports the usage and concerns of low literacy users in developing countries. The main question addressed in this study is: “Can personal health records be stored securely and usefully on mobile phones?” In this study, mobile phones were integrated into the PHR architecture that we/I designed because the literature reveals that the majority of the population in developing countries possess mobile phones. Additionally, mobile phones are very flexible and cost efficient devices that offer adequate storage and computing capabilities to users for typically communication operations. However, it is also worth noting that, mobile phones generally do not provide sufficient security mechanisms to protect the user data from unauthorized access. 2015-05-28T12:32:26Z 2015-05-28T12:32:26Z 2014 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13035 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Computer Science Ssembatya, Richard Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| title_full | Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| title_fullStr | Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| title_short | Designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records : a case of developing countries |
| title_sort | designing an architecture for secure sharing of personal health records a case of developing countries |
| topic | Computer Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13035 |
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