Wazid Mohammad, Zeadally Sherali, Das Ashok Kumar, Odelu Vanga
Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 500 032, India.
College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 405 06, USA.
J Med Syst. 2016 Nov;40(11):229. doi: 10.1007/s10916-016-0596-0. Epub 2016 Sep 17.
Mobile Healthcare (mHealth) continues to improve because of significant improvements and the decreasing costs of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). mHealth is a medical and public health practice, which is supported by mobile devices (for example, smartphones) and, patient monitoring devices (for example, various types of wearable sensors, etc.). An mHealth system enables healthcare experts and professionals to have ubiquitous access to a patient's health data along with providing any ongoing medical treatment at any time, any place, and from any device. It also helps the patient requiring continuous medical monitoring to stay in touch with the appropriate medical staff and healthcare experts remotely. Thus, mHealth has become a major driving force in improving the health of citizens today. First, we discuss the security requirements, issues and threats to the mHealth system. We then present a taxonomy of recently proposed security protocols for mHealth system based on features supported and possible attacks, computation cost and communication cost. Our detailed taxonomy demonstrates the strength and weaknesses of recently proposed security protocols for the mHealth system. Finally, we identify some of the challenges in the area of security protocols for mHealth systems that still need to be addressed in the future to enable cost-effective, secure and robust mHealth systems.
由于信息通信技术（ICT）的显著进步和成本降低，移动医疗（mHealth）持续发展。移动医疗是一种医学和公共卫生实践，它借助移动设备（如智能手机）以及患者监测设备（如各类可穿戴传感器等）提供支持。移动医疗系统使医疗专家和专业人员能够随时随地通过任何设备普遍获取患者的健康数据，并提供任何正在进行的医疗治疗。它还帮助需要持续医疗监测的患者远程与合适的医务人员和医疗专家保持联系。因此，移动医疗已成为当今改善公民健康的主要驱动力。首先，我们讨论移动医疗系统的安全要求、问题和威胁。然后，我们基于所支持的功能、可能的攻击、计算成本和通信成本，对最近提出的移动医疗系统安全协议进行分类。我们详细的分类展示了最近提出的移动医疗系统安全协议的优缺点。最后，我们确定了移动医疗系统安全协议领域中一些仍需在未来解决的挑战，以实现具有成本效益、安全且强大的移动医疗系统。
