Alternative Biometric as Method of Information Security of Healthcare Systems

As information technologies develop, there appear more and more medical devices for diagnosis of human condition and maintenance of life-support. Such devices as insulin pumps, implanted pacemakers and defibrillators are used for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of the patients’ condition. These devices operate using sensors interacting with the human body. The increasing complexity of such devices induced development of a Body Area Network technology which makes it possible to arrange the sensor network on the human body and perform continuous monitoring of the organism's condition. The possibility to continuously record the patient’s data is useful not only in the treatment and diagnosis but also for design of the information security system for life-support medical devices. In this article discuss the problem of human authentication in BASN. Biometric technology using heart sounds applied in approach; moreover it has a number of benefits compared to the standard methods of biometrics.