Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Stefan Katzenbeisser

Milan Petkovic

Robert Paul Koster

Marijn Christian Damstra

Rafih Berkane

A method of performing measurement of a subject comprises measuring a physiological parameter of a subject, deriving data from the measured parameter, optionally, obtaining metadata relating to the measurement of the physiological parameter, determining the quality of the derived data from the derived data and/or the obtained metadata, and if the determined quality matches a predefined criteria, performing a predefined corrective action. In one embodiment, the method further comprises calculating one or more qualifiers from the derived data and/or from the obtained metadata, and wherein the step of determining the quality of the derived data comprises determining the quality of the derived data from the calculated qualifiers.

Performing measurement of a subject

The invention uses the concept of identity-based encryption in the context of data-centric protection of electronic health records, where each data item is encrypted by using its own identifier as a public key. The corresponding decryption keys are managed by special trusted entities, which distribute the keys to authorized parties and provide logging facilities. This approach has the particular advantage that emergency access mechanisms can be implemented in a secure and extremely efficient way. In contrast to previous approaches, it requires no large-scale distribution of secret decryption keys. Furthermore, the scheme allows limiting the impact of a compromised decryption key, as one key can only be used to decrypt one single document.

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Stefan Katzenbeisser