Towards a cooperative security system for mobile-health applications

Abstract

Mobile Health (m-Health) system architectures are typically based on mobile and wireless communications, and use mobile devices with data exchange supported by Web Services (WS). Although m-Health systems offer mobility as a potential and precious resource they also present several challenged issues and constraints, such as, battery and storage capacity, broadcast constraints, interferences, disconnections, noises, limited bandwidths, and network delays. Furthermore, constant mobility and often-required Internet connectivity also exposes and compromises the privacy and confidentiality of the m-Health system information. This paper proposes a novel data encryption solution for mobile health systems, considering a novel and early-proposed cooperation strategy. This encryption solution, called data encryption for mobile health applications (DE4MHA), tries to guarantee the best confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of m-health systems users data. The paper also presents a performance evaluation study comparing the performance an m-Health application with and without the DE4MHA.

Preserving Privacy in Mobile Health Systems Using Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof and Blockchain

“…Silva et al [18] presented a cryptographic scheme to guarantee confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of data in mHealth applications. The authors proposed a hybrid approach using symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms.…”

“…For example, to achieve the same level of security as an elliptic curve cryptosystem with a 256-bit key (used in our paper), RSA needs a 3072-bit key [19] [20]. Due to the size of the key and the time required for processing, algorithms based on modular arithmetic, such as RSA, may make the scheme proposed in [18] unsuitable for mHealth systems with resource-limited devices.…”

E-Sağlık ve Güvenlik: Riskler, Fırsatlar ve Çözüm Önerileri

“…DE4MHA, simetrik ve asimetrik şifreleme algoritmaları kullanarak karma bir yaklaşım kullanır. Bu çalışmada m-sağlık ağ mimarisi için en uygun simetrik algoritmanın AES olduğu, ağ senaryoları için en uygun asimetrik algoritmanın RSA olduğu ve web servisleriyle iletişim için HTTPS protokolünün en uygun güvenlik mekanizması olduğu ortaya çıkmıştır [28].…”

Mobile health and smart health applications

“…• Sağlık profesyonelleri İlaç Hatırlatıcı: Özellikle gün içinde birden fazla ilaç alması gereken hastalar için hatırlatıcı özellikler içeren uygulamaları ifade etmektedir (10).…”