1st International ICST Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care

Research Article

Enabling Secure Mobile Access for Electronic Health Care Applications

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361689,
        author={Murugaraj  Shanmugam and Srinath  Thiruvengadam and Assadarat  Khurat and Ilias  Maglogiannis},
        title={Enabling Secure Mobile Access for Electronic Health Care Applications},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PMHCS},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Medical applications have already been integrated into mobile devices (e.g. Tablet PCs PDAs and smart phones) and are being used by medical personnel in treatment centers for retrieving and examining patient's Electronic Health Records (EHR). In such mobile healthcare applications specific attention is drawn towards the security requirements since the transmission of sensitive medical data through a public network renders the problem of communication privacy. In this paper we present an approach to transfer the medical records of an individual by using the existing infrastructure of mobile operators. To achieve that we propose the application of existing technologies in 3G networks such as the generic bootstrapping architecture (GBA) to enable the secure transfer of EHR data. The paper presents the corresponding applicability scenarios initial results from a prototype test bed and discusses the feasibility of the proposed solution along with its limitations},
        doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361689}
    }
    
  • Murugaraj Shanmugam
    Srinath Thiruvengadam
    Assadarat Khurat
    Ilias Maglogiannis
    Year: 2007
    Enabling Secure Mobile Access for Electronic Health Care Applications
    PMHCS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361689
Murugaraj Shanmugam1,*, Srinath Thiruvengadam1,*, Assadarat Khurat1,*, Ilias Maglogiannis2,*
  • 1: Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Otto-Hahn Ring 6, Munich 81739 Germany
  • 2: University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, GR-832 00, Greece
*Contact email: murugaraj.shanmugam@siemens.com, srinath.thiruvengadam@siemens.com, assadarat.khurat.ext@siemens.com, imaglo@aegean.gr

Abstract

Medical applications have already been integrated into mobile devices (e.g. Tablet PCs, PDAs and smart phones) and are being used by medical personnel in treatment centers, for retrieving and examining patient's Electronic Health Records (EHR). In such mobile healthcare applications, specific attention is drawn towards the security requirements since the transmission of sensitive medical data through a public network renders the problem of communication privacy. In this paper we present an approach to transfer the medical records of an individual by using the existing infrastructure of mobile operators. To achieve that, we propose the application of existing technologies in 3G networks such as the generic bootstrapping architecture (GBA) to enable the secure transfer of EHR data. The paper presents the corresponding applicability scenarios, initial results from a prototype test bed and discusses the feasibility of the proposed solution along with its limitations