Uma arquitetura de software baseada em Computação em Névoa para gestão dos registros médicos centrada no paciente

Abstract

The aging of the world's population and the growth in the number of people with chronic diseases have increased expenses with medical care. Thus, the use of technological solutions, including Internet of Things-based solutions, has been widely adopted in the medical field to improve the patients' health. In this context, approaches based on Cloud Computing have been used to store and process the information generated in these solutions. However, using Cloud can create delays that are intolerable for medical applications. Thus, the Fog Computing paradigm emerged as an alternative to overcome this problem, bringing computation and storage closer to the data sources. However, managing medical data stored in Fog is still a challenge. Moreover, characteristics of privacy, con dentiality, and interoperability need to be considered in approaches that aim to explore this problem. So, this work de nes a Fog Computing-based software architecture designed to provide patient-centered management of medical records. This architecture uses Blockchain technology to provide the necessary privacy features. This thesis also describes a case study that analyzed the requirements of privacy, confidentiality, and interoperability in a Home Care scenario. Finally, the performance behavior related to access to data managed in the proposed architecture was analyzed in the mentioned scenario.