Security and Privacy Risks for Remote Healthcare Monitoring Systems

Remote healthcare monitoring systems have increasingly become a reliable solution for delivering personalized, less intrusive and patient-friendly healthcare services. Internet of Things technology is an important driver for sustaining a large range of the capabilities of these systems, including the access to a huge amount of various health data. As this data are considered highly sensitive due to the personal feature, security and privacy threats and attacks are very likely to target the vulnerabilities of the IoT devices, network connectivity, data storage etc. This presents a brief overview of the vulnerabilities of the above-mentioned systems and a proposed solution for addressing them from the designing stage. For this purpose, a synthesis of security and privacy vulnerabilities, basic requirements and countermeasures associated distinctively with each level of the IoT-based architecture of RO-SmartAgeing system is put forward.

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