Practical and secure telemedicine systems for user mobility

The application of wireless devices has led to a significant improvement in the quality delivery of care in telemedicine systems. Patients who live in a remote area are able to communicate with the healthcare provider and benefit from the doctor consultations. However, it has been a challenge to provide a secure telemedicine system, which captures users (patients and doctors) mobility and patient privacy. In this work, we present several secure protocols for telemedicine systems, which ensure the secure communication between patients and doctors who are located in different geographical locations. Our protocols are the first of this kind featured with confidentiality of patient information, mutual authentication, patient anonymity, data integrity, freshness of communication, and mobility. Our protocols are based on symmetric-key schemes and capture all desirable security requirements in order to better serve our objectives of research for secure telemedicine services; therefore, they are very efficient in implementation. A comparison with related works shows that our work contributes first comprehensive solution to capture user mobility and patient privacy for telemedicine systems.

[1]  Willy Susilo,et al.  A Systematic Literature Review on Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Record Systems: Technical Perspectives , 2015, Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia.

[2]  M. Anwar Hossain,et al.  Privacy preserving secure data exchange in mobile P2P cloud healthcare environment , 2016, Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl..

[3]  Samiran Chattopadhyay,et al.  On the Design of Fine Grained Access Control With User Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2017, IEEE Access.

[4]  Muhammad Khurram Khan,et al.  An Efficient and Practical Smart Card Based Anonymity Preserving User Authentication Scheme for TMIS using Elliptic Curve Cryptography , 2015, Journal of Medical Systems.

[5]  Jianfeng Ma,et al.  A Privacy Enhanced Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medical Information Systems , 2013, Journal of Medical Systems.

[6]  Saru Kumari,et al.  Secure anonymity-preserving password-based user authentication and session key agreement scheme for telecare medicine information systems , 2016, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed..

[7]  Sourav Mukhopadhyay,et al.  A privacy preserving biometric-based three-factor remote user authenticated key agreement scheme , 2017, J. Inf. Secur. Appl..

[8]  Zhang Rui,et al.  A More Secure Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2012, Journal of medical systems.

[9]  Jianfeng Ma,et al.  Robust Chaotic Map-based Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme with Strong Anonymity for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2014, Journal of Medical Systems.

[10]  Kambombo Mtonga,et al.  An efficient privacy-preserving authentication scheme with adaptive key evolution in remote health monitoring system , 2014, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications.

[11]  Yu-Fang Chung,et al.  A Secure Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2012, Journal of Medical Systems.

[12]  Wenfen Liu,et al.  An Improved Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2012, Journal of Medical Systems.

[13]  Sourav Mukhopadhyay,et al.  A Secure and Efficient Chaotic Map-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Telecare Medicine Information Systems , 2014, Journal of Medical Systems.

[14]  Chao Yang,et al.  A bilinear pairing based anonymous authentication scheme in wireless body area networks for mHealth , 2016, Journal of Medical Systems.

[15]  Yi Mu,et al.  Distributed clinical data sharing via dynamic access-control policy transformation , 2016, Int. J. Medical Informatics.

[16]  Yi Mu,et al.  Multi-authority security framework for scalable EHR systems , 2016, Int. J. Medical Eng. Informatics.

[17]  Young-Long Chen,et al.  Applications of Multi-Channel Safety Authentication Protocols in Wireless Networks , 2015, Journal of Medical Systems.