Towards Trust and Governance in Integrated Health and Social Care Platforms

The way health and care data is exchanged will considerably change due to the progressive deployment of integrated care platforms and cyber-physical systems. Next generation network technologies such as 5G will allow for virtualization technologies such as SDN and NFV, which will enable not only data exchange but also in particular multi domain orchestration and service aggregation in real time. This will require “trust” to be embedded into new e-Health platforms as a core value. For the use in M2M systems this needs to be translated in a system of rules and policies, which have to go hand in hand with cutting edge cybersecurity practices such as cryptography and access control. However, there will also be the need for strong governance especially when health information will become accessible across different domains and networks. In this context, specific translation gateways have proven helpful and should be investigated further.