PESOHA: Privacy-Preserving Evaluation System for Online Healthcare Applications

Abstract

Online healthcare and wellness applications are one of the alternatives to expensive face-to-face medical services. By using online healthcare applications, patients are able to access clinical interventions at a lower cost and at their convenience. However, the lack of rigorous evaluation system becomes a barrier to further growth. To address the shortcoming, in this paper, we propose the privacy-preserving evaluation system for online healthcare applications, in short PESOHA. The proposed system helps non-IT healthcare professionals easily to create their clinical studies on their online applications and assess the performance of online health applications by using privacy-preserving online monitoring. In this paper, we present the structural architecture of PESOHA and demonstrate its operations for healthcare researchers and patients. The systematic evaluation method of PESOHA will expand the role of online healthcare and wellness applications.