A comparative review on the wireless implantable medical devices privacy and security

Author

Ankarali, Z. Esat ; Abbasi, Qammer H. ; Demir, A. Fatih ; Serpedin, Erchin ; Qaraqe, Khalid ; Arslan, Huseyin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

246

Lastpage

249

Abstract

Nowadays wireless communication is playing a vital role in implantable medical devices (IMDs) on health-care applications. It has many advantages in remote health monitoring, treatment and prediction for critical cases. However, any drawback in security of these devices against malicious attacks may lead to serious problems, such as theft of private information, wrong treatment and even death. In this paper, a comparative review of the current literature on IMD security research is provided to have a better understanding of the state of the art and the gaps in this direction.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; data privacy; health care; medical information systems; patient monitoring; patient treatment; prosthetics; reviews; security of data; telemedicine; IMD security research; comparative review; critical case prediction; health care application; malicious attacks; patient treatment; private information theft; remote health monitoring; wireless communication; wireless implantable medical device privacy; wireless implantable medical device security; wrong treatment; Communication system security; Jamming; Medical services; Privacy; Security; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Body Area Networks; Implantable medical devices (IMDs); In-Vivo communication; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIHEALTH.2014.7015957

Filename

7015957