Privacy Management and Networked PPD Systems - Challenges Solutions.

Modern personal portable health devices (PPDs) become increasingly part of a larger, inhomogeneous information system. Information collected by sensors are stored and processed in global clouds. Services are often free of charge, but at the same time service providers' business model is based on the disclosure of users' intimate health information.

Portable devices, sensors and networks: wireless personalized eHealth services.

The 21st century healthcare systems aim at involving citizen and health professionals alike entitling especially the citizens to take over a higher level of responsibility for their own health status. Applied technologies like, e.g.

Standardization work on personalized eHealth systems.

For widespread adoption of eHealth, and to achieve eInclusion and eAccessibility, eHealth systems must be tailored to each individual user's needs and preferences. Many eHealth products and services contain adjustable parameter settings, but they are specific to each product and unrelated to each other. This paper describes ongoing work to establish standards and guidelines for personalization of eHealth systems, taking into account the needs of all users, both clients and caregivers.