Facility Horticulture Laboratory of Universities in Shandong, Weifang University of Science & Technology, Shouguang 262700, China.
College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2019 Jul 17;19(14):3146. doi: 10.3390/s19143146.
In the age of the Internet of Things, connected devices are changing the delivery system in the healthcare communication environment. With the integration of IoT in healthcare, there is a huge potential for improvement of the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care in addition to promising technological, economical, and social prospects. Nevertheless, this integration comes with security risks such as data breach that might be caused by credential-stealing malware. In addition, the patient valuable data can be disclosed when the perspective devices are compromised since they are connected to the internet. Hence, security has become an essential part of today's computing world regarding the ubiquitous nature of the IoT entities in general and IoT-based healthcare in particular. In this paper, research on the algorithm for anonymizing sensitive information about health data set exchanged in the IoT environment using a wireless communication system has been presented. To preserve the security and privacy, during the data session from the users interacting online, the algorithm defines records that cannot be revealed by providing protection to user's privacy. Moreover, the proposed algorithm includes a secure encryption process that enables health data anonymity. Furthermore, we have provided an analysis using mathematical functions to valid the algorithm's anonymity function. The results show that the anonymization algorithm guarantees safety features for the considered IoT system applied in context of the healthcare communication systems.
在物联网时代，互联设备正在改变医疗保健通信环境中的交付系统。随着物联网在医疗保健中的融合，除了有前景的技术、经济和社会前景外，还有很大的潜力可以提高医疗保健的质量、安全性和效率。然而，这种集成带来了安全风险，例如凭证窃取恶意软件可能导致的数据泄露。此外，当潜在设备受到攻击时，患者的有价值数据可能会被泄露，因为它们连接到互联网。因此，安全性已成为当今计算世界的一个重要组成部分，特别是考虑到物联网实体的普遍存在和基于物联网的医疗保健。在本文中，提出了一种使用无线通信系统对物联网环境中交换的医疗数据集的敏感信息进行匿名化的算法研究。为了保护安全性和隐私性，在用户在线交互的数据会话期间，该算法通过为用户隐私提供保护来定义不能公开的记录。此外，所提出的算法包括一个安全的加密过程，实现了医疗数据的匿名化。此外，我们还使用数学函数提供了一个分析，以验证算法的匿名功能。结果表明，所提出的匿名化算法保证了所考虑的物联网系统在医疗保健通信系统中的安全特性。
