Medical Information Protection Frameworks for Smart Healthcare based on IoT

The smart healthcare area is expanding its application to telemedicine, mobile health, EHR/EMR/PHR, wireless medical services, and precision medicine through a combination of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. In the IoT environment, it is difficult to actively control packets and traffic using existing network technologies because multiple devices and sensors create different types of packets and cause variable traffic. Furthermore, it is difficult to apply various existing security technologies in the IoT environment because various services are provided using low-end sensor devices with limited performances. This study presented here aims to construct an IoT-based smart healthcare service security model. The security requirements for IoT environments are summarized while a framework for designing security areas for IoT services is proposed and applied to smart healthcare services. For this purpose, a medical information protection framework was designed to provide authentication, access control, network and system security, integrity, and confidentiality by investigating the characteristics of the smart healthcare environment.