System Architecture and Security Issues of Smartphone-based Point-Of-Care Devices

Abstract

In recent years, personalized healthcare has become increasingly popular in our society. Wearable devices started a trend for monitoring physical health parameters. The next evolution after wearable devices are Point-Of-Care (POC) devices, which provide more vital parameter analyses for everyone. The electrification of POC devices is required to simplify the process and to increase the accuracy of measurement results. In this work, we focus on POC devices in combination with smartphones. Often, these devices are measuring and processing very sensitive data, which underlie a high privacy restriction. Therefore, it is required to provide an architecture and security issue analysis of POC devices. The outcome of this research contribution provides a sensitization for the requirement of enhanced security features. Especially, to fulfill the need for a power-aware security concept for a POC system architecture, which underlies limited resources like power consumption.

Privacy-Aware Architectures for NFC and RFID Sensors in Healthcare Applications

“…Overall, after a thorough search through the literature (see next Section 2 for more information on existing literature relevant to the present work), no previous research has investigated secure architectures for NFC and RFID medical sensors while both considering the possible vulnerabilities of wireless, electromagnetic links and the usage of a cloud provider other than the medical system. Indeed, the investigation of similar secure architectures has been gaining attention in recent years [16,48,52,53]. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work on the security of raw medical data collected by sensors and then shared with the physician through such an NFC/RFID system.…”

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Wearable IoT System in Long-Term Care Environments

“…The wearable Internet of Things (IoT) care system is an innovative and versatile application service system that can be worn on the body to monitor and manage personal health. The system utilizes IoT technology, allowing multiple sensors and devices to connect and communicate with each other, enabling a variety of functions and applications [11][12][13][14][15][16].…”