Secure E-Health Platform
Karima Djouadi
(B)
and Abdelkader Belkhir
(B)
Department of Computer Science, Computer Systems Laboratory,
USTHB BO 32, Bab Ezzouar 16111, Algiers, Algeria
kdjouadi1@usthb.dz, kaderbelkhir@hotmail.com
Abstract. Currently, the Internet has become a service hosting infrastructure through its interconnection of a very large number of heterogeneous objects, thus offering users several types of services implemented
by different sectors. Although these services make people’s lives easier
and provide them with a means of communication between their real
and virtual worlds, they risk being a path of intrusion into their private
lives, or in some cases an easy target for malicious individuals aiming to
endanger human life. To avoid this, we have designed a secure e-health
platform based on IoT that serves to monitor patients’ medical profiles
remotely by collecting their medical records while ensuring their confidentiality and integrity.
Keywords: Internet of things (IoT) · E-health · Security ·
Confidentiality
1 Introduction
With the interconnection of billions of objects around the world, IoT offers several services to individuals through many types of applications deployed in several domains, including smart grid [1], smart home, smart city, smart healthcare
and applications dedicated to vehicle monitoring [2,3].
Healthcare Systems have emerged to address some of the problems facing
the health sector, mainly the lack of medical staff caused by the ever-increasing
population and the lack of timely diagnosis of diseases [4] by allowing constant
medical monitoring of chronic patients or residents of isolated or underserved
locations. In this development and deployment of e-health systems, information
management by mobile devices require very short response times and latency,
it introduces also several challenges including data storage and management,
security and confidentiality (e.g. authorization control and anonymity) [8]. The
integration of fairly strong security mechanisms is necessary for this systems
where a successful security attack results in several human lives being subjected
to false diagnosis or delayed surgical procedures.
We are interested to problems of storage, confidentiality and data integrity by
ensuring minimal response time and low latency. Several authors have conducted
works aimed at setting up remote patient monitoring platforms such as [13–16].
Nevertheless, this works present some limitations such as neglecting the security
c
The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 240–248, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_20
Karima Djouadi
(B)
and Abdelkader Belkhir
(B)
Department of Computer Science, Computer Systems Laboratory,
USTHB BO 32, Bab Ezzouar 16111, Algiers, Algeria
kdjouadi1@usthb.dz, kaderbelkhir@hotmail.com
Abstract. Currently, the Internet has become a service hosting infrastructure through its interconnection of a very large number of heterogeneous objects, thus offering users several types of services implemented
by different sectors. Although these services make people’s lives easier
and provide them with a means of communication between their real
and virtual worlds, they risk being a path of intrusion into their private
lives, or in some cases an easy target for malicious individuals aiming to
endanger human life. To avoid this, we have designed a secure e-health
platform based on IoT that serves to monitor patients’ medical profiles
remotely by collecting their medical records while ensuring their confidentiality and integrity.
Keywords: Internet of things (IoT) · E-health · Security ·
Confidentiality
1 Introduction
With the interconnection of billions of objects around the world, IoT offers several services to individuals through many types of applications deployed in several domains, including smart grid [1], smart home, smart city, smart healthcare
and applications dedicated to vehicle monitoring [2,3].
Healthcare Systems have emerged to address some of the problems facing
the health sector, mainly the lack of medical staff caused by the ever-increasing
population and the lack of timely diagnosis of diseases [4] by allowing constant
medical monitoring of chronic patients or residents of isolated or underserved
locations. In this development and deployment of e-health systems, information
management by mobile devices require very short response times and latency,
it introduces also several challenges including data storage and management,
security and confidentiality (e.g. authorization control and anonymity) [8]. The
integration of fairly strong security mechanisms is necessary for this systems
where a successful security attack results in several human lives being subjected
to false diagnosis or delayed surgical procedures.
We are interested to problems of storage, confidentiality and data integrity by
ensuring minimal response time and low latency. Several authors have conducted
works aimed at setting up remote patient monitoring platforms such as [13–16].
Nevertheless, this works present some limitations such as neglecting the security
c
The Author(s) 2020
M. Jmaiel et al. (Eds.): ICOST 2020, LNCS 12157, pp. 240–248, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51517-1_20