Anonymous E-prescriptions

Giuseppe Ateniese, Breno de Medeiros

Abstract: This paper studies issues related to privacy protection of medical data, arguing that the topic is suitable for applied cryptographic research.We present the problem of medicine prescription privacy and describe a practical system that employs standard cryptographic techniques to achieve several improvements over current practices. We also introduce a very simple tool: Online group signatures which can be built via simple primitives implemented in commonly employed cryptographic libraries.