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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636327/?report=printable
J Med Internet Res. 2013 Apr; 15(4): e66.
PMCID: PMC3636327
Published online 2013 Apr 25. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2498
A Data Encryption Solution for Mobile Health Apps in Cooperation Environments
Monitoring Editor: Gunther Eysenbach, Antonio Jara, Sabine Koch, and Pradeep Ray
Reviewed by Sherali Zeadally, Christos Verikoukis, Alexey Vinel, Pascal Lorenz, and Antonio Jara
Bruno M Silva, BSC, MSc,1 Joel JPC Rodrigues, BSC, MSc, PhD, 1 Fábio Canelo, BSC, Msc Candidate,1 Ivo C Lopes,
BSC, MSc,1 and Liang Zhou, BSC, MSc, PhD2
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Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China
Joel JPC Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Rua Marques D’Avila e Bolama, Covilhã, 6201-001, Portugal,
Phone: 351 275242081, Fax: 351 275319891, Email: joeljr@ieee.org.
Corresponding author.
Corresponding Author: Joel JPC Rodrigues ; Email: joeljr@ieee.org
Received 2012 Dec 15; Revisions requested 2013 Jan 10; Revised 2013 Jan 22; Accepted 2013 Feb 9.
Copyright ©Bruno M Silva, Joel JPC Rodrigues, Fábio Canelo, Ivo C Lopes, Liang Zhou. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet
Research (http://www.jmir.org), 25.04.2013.
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/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of
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Abstract
Background
Mobile Health (mHealth) proposes health care delivering anytime and anywhere. It aims to answer several
emerging problems in health services, including the increasing number of chronic diseases, high costs on
national health services, and the need to provide direct access to health services, regardless of time and place.
mHealth systems include the use of mobile devices and apps that interact with patients and caretakers.
However, mobile devices present several constraints, such as processor, energy, and storage resource
limitations. The constant mobility and often-required Internet connectivity also exposes and compromises the
privacy and confidentiality of health information.
Objective
This paper presents a proposal, construction, performance evaluation, and validation of a data encryption
solution for mobile health apps (DE4MHA), considering a novel and early-proposed cooperation strategy. The
goal was to present a robust solution based on encryption algorithms that guarantee the best confidentiality,
integrity, and authenticity of users health information. In this paper, we presented, explained, evaluated the
performance, and discussed the cooperation mechanisms and the proposed encryption solution for mHealth
apps.
Methods
First, we designed and deployed the DE4MHA. Then two studies were performed: (1) study and comparison of
symmetric and asymmetric encryption/decryption algorithms in an mHealth app under a cooperation
environment, and (2) performance evaluation of the DE4MHA. Its performance was evaluated through a
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