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Abstract: The aim of digital healthcare systems and learning methodology. By eliminating or doing away with the
the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) is the ease of requirement of direct transmission of data, this framework
accessing high-quality healthcare from the comfort of one’s offers increased confidentiality, autonomous compliance to
own residence.Therefore, the widespread implementation data safeguarding laws, and enhanced scaling capability.(Li
of home-based healthcare systems is the goal of IoMT. et.al.) [7]Nonetheless, privacy problems still continue to
Millions of lives can be saved by developing intelligent and arise in FL-based medical recommender systems (FMRS),
effective systems for the early detection of serious diseases, primarily owing to the potential of leakage of confidential
which also reduces the load on established healthcare information during gradient transmission, demonstrating
institutions like hospitals.Patients and physicians now have how susceptible the model is to alterations in information
access to real-time data because to IOT advancements. provided.
Because of this breakthrough’s use of effective sensors and This project prioritises on establishing a privacy-preserving
communication technologies, digital healthcare systems are system leveraging homomorphic encryption with the objective
now less expensive and energy-intensive. This document to safeguard user security and fixate the shortcomings in
introduces a method, for handling security and privacy FMRS. Homomorphic encryption safeguards the privacy
issues related to the gathering, storage and use of data and confidentiality of sensitive genetic medical data through
in a healthcare setting. Sensitive genetic data is securely facilitating computation over encrypted data without the need
transmitted and stored using a novel protocol through for decryption. To permit authorised entities to gain access
use of homomorphic encryption (FHE). Users can upload to and utilise the data for medical research and development
their data to cloud servers where it is encrypted and purposes, our protocol intends to deal with the privacy
stored.Furthermore, the use of homomorphic encryption concerns related to the storage, distribution, and utilisation of
eliminates the need for encryption decryption cycles, guar- genetic medical data.
anteeing data security, and enables AI models to be trained This research focuses on three specific objectives:
directly upon encrypted data. Additionally, The encrypted (1) to assess the privacy and security related inefficiencies in
anonymous data may be shared for training purposes present-day FMRS frameworks, especially as they pertain to
with outside organisations. Finally, the article examines gradient transmission;
various digital innovations in the healthcare context, their (2) to propose alternative approaches to overcoming the
opportunities, limitations, and current challenges facing FMRS privacy flaws which have been found.
the e-health industry. (3) to offer a secure and reliable system which utilises
homomorphic encryption to safeguarding genetic medical
I. I NTRODUCTION data at every stage from processing to distribution and storage.
Healthcare has been through an enormous change, turning
entirely digital owing to the rapid development in medical The objective of this research is to put down a foundation for
research as well as the emergence of Internet of Medical privacy protection in FMRS by addressing the shortcomings
Things (IOMT) appliances (Joyia et.al.) [6]. This digital in existing frameworks and offering innovative remedies. Our
revolution has produced a multitude of opportunities via the research simplifies the process to securely manage, transmit,
use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) and analyse genetic medical data, which in turn improves data
technology specially (Wiens et.al.) [13]. These sophisticated privacy and security in the healthcare sector. In addition, our
algorithms’ capacity of analysing enormous volumes of strategy gives patients authority over their data, facilitating
information and to provide personalised suggestions for safer and more effective machine learning model training,
medication, diagnosis, and therapy possesses shows great and eventually enhancing patient and community health out-
potential to completely transform the healthcare sector. On comes.We provide a thorough examination of each component
the other hand, there are additionally significant privacy issues as we go deeper into the historical background, current issues,
associated with collecting and archiving of massive quantities and suggested protocol design in the following sections. By
of clinical information in centralised data centres, Federated our work, we provide the foundation for a future in which
learning (FL) has been presented as a potential fix for such genetic medical data exchange may be conducted in a private
problems(Yang et.al.) [15]. Machine learning (ML) models and secure manner..
are cooperatively trained on user data using FL’s decentralized Safeguarding privacy in medical data constitute the focus of
many latest developments, an important feature of these is B. Risks and Shortcomings Analysis
homomorphic encryption, which renders it possible to compute
upon encrypted data and does away with the need for repeated Although homomorphic encryption is vital for safeguarding
encryption and decryption(Salavi et.al.) [10]. By enabling genomic data, it could also result in a computational burden
authorised entities to perform computations on encrypted, that might lower operational speed and efficiency (Vizitiu
homomorphic encryption guarantees the protection of sensitive et.al.)(Cheng et.al.) [12] [5]. Processes and approaches to
patient information throughout the analysis process (Song encryption have to be upgraded so as to mitigate these negative
et.al.)(Zhang et.al.) [11] [17]. Access control methods are impacts. For genomic information systems to prove effective
another essential piece for giving patients control over their and efficient, the data must be standardised and made interop-
medical data and for supporting homomorphic encryption. erable. Reliable and high-quality data is essential for both data
Patients can manage who has access to their encrypted medical analysis and training models; therefore, it is essential to verify
records by putting in place procedures with strong access and evaluate the quality of uploaded data so as to prevent
restrictions. This proactive participation guarantees patient disruption, but having to do this while preserving privacy is
data privacy until explicitly disclosed to authorised parties. challenging.Other risks to privacy involve the unauthorised
exposure of encrypted information and breaches of the adopted
encryption strategy. Hackers might try to intercept encrypted
data in transit or may use advanced computing techniques and
fresh innovations to try to decode the encryption; therefore,
it is imperative to secure sensitive genetic information using
robust security protocols.
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