exploring synergies between digital tv recommender systems and electronic health records
Recommender systems have been around for several years in Digital TV scenarios as tools intended to discover items that are likely to be of interest for the viewers, as inferred from profiles that gather information about TV programs they watch or commercial products they purchase. In this paper, we introduce electronic health records as a new dimension of the viewer profiles, enabling a number of features that may have a significant impact in the field of interactive services to the home. This proposal brings in contributions related to (i) designing architectures and procedures to prevent the disclosure or guessing of sensitive health-related data, (ii) enabling access to information stored in standards-compliant EHR repositories from DTV set-top boxes, and (iii) refining the recommendation logic to reckon the enabling/disabling nature of such data.
recommender systems healthcare interactive digital tv e-commerce