A scientific paper entitled “An innovative approach for the protection of healthcare information through the end-to-end pseudo-anonymization of end-users” has been accepted for oral presentation at the 1st International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare (HealthyIoT), which is held in Rome, Italy, on 27-28 October 2014. Panagiotis Gouvas, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Konstantinos Perakis and Thanasis Bouras present the approach and conceptual architecture of SHIELD, an innovative methodological approach and network architecture-deployed within the framework of the FI-STAR project- targeting at the protection of healthcare information through the pseudo-anonymization of end-users. SHIELD suggests a new network and software architecture targeting at the provision of high quality pseydonymized context-aware services, and provides a holistic framework for the provision of such in the healthcare domain, based on: 1) the design of the networking architecture that guarantees the anonymity of end-users and the protection of their personal data, 2) the dynamic creation of unique pseudonyms for the SHIELD end users and 3) the deployment and operation of a PKI and issuance of digital certificates per pseudonymized end user.
