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Wearable devices such as smartwatches and mental health trackers enable continuous biometric data collection, offering significant potential to enhance chronic disorder treatment and overall healthcare quality. However, these technologies introduce critical security and privacy risks, as they handle sensitive patient data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>To address these challenges, this paper proposes a security-by-design cloud-based architecture that leverages wearable body sensors for continuous patient monitoring and mental disorder prediction. The system integrates an Elasticsearch-powered backend to manage biometric data securely. A dedicated framework was developed to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of patient data through secure communication protocols and privacy-preserving mechanisms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The proposed architecture successfully enables secure real-time biometric monitoring and data processing from wearable devices. The system is designed to operate 24\/7, ensuring robust performance in continuously tracking both mental and physiological health indicators. The inclusion of Elasticsearch provides scalable and efficient data indexing and retrieval, supporting timely healthcare decisions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This work addresses key security and privacy challenges inherent in continuous biometric data collection. By incorporating a security-by-design approach, the proposed framework enhances trustworthiness in healthcare monitoring technologies. 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