Context-based security and privacy for healthcare IoT

Vangalur Alagar, Alaa Alsaig, Olga Ormandjieva, Kaiyu Wan

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Abstract

Healthcare Internet of Things (HIoT) is transforming healthcare industry by providing large scale connectivity for medical devices, patients, physicians, clinical and nursing staff who use them and facilitate real-time monitoring based on the information gathered from the connected things. Heterogeneity and vastness of this network provide both opportunity and challenges for information collection and sharing. Patient-centric information such as health status and medical devices used by them must be protected to respect their safety and privacy, while healthcare knowledge should be shared in confidence by experts for healthcare innovation and timely treatment of patients. In this paper an overview of HIoT is given, emphasizing its characteristics to those of Big Data, and a security and privacy architecture is proposed for it. Context-sensitive role-based access control scheme is discussed to ensure that HIoT is reliable, provides data privacy, and achieves regulatory compliance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, SmartIoT 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages122-128
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781538685426
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Sept 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, SmartIoT 2018 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 17 Aug 201819 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, SmartIoT 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things, SmartIoT 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period17/08/1819/08/18

Keywords

  • Access Controls
  • Context
  • Healthcare IoT
  • Privacy
  • Security

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