SPOC : A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Opportunistic Computing Framework for Mobile-Healthcare Emergency

Mobile Healthcare (m-Healthcare) system has been envisioned as an important application of pervasive computing to improve health care quality and save lives, where miniaturized wearable and implantable body sensor nodes and smart phones are utilized to provide remote healthcare monitoring to people who have chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. User’s personal health information (PHI) such as heart beat, blood sugar level, blood pressure and temperature and others can be first collected by BSN. Finally, they are further transmitted to the remote healthcare center via Modem. Based on these collected PHI data, medical professionals at healthcare center can continuously monitor medical users’ health conditions and as well quickly react to users’ lifethreatening situations and save their lives by dispatching ambulance and medical personnel to an emergency location. The proposed SPOC framework can help medical users to balance the high reliability of PHI process and minimizing the PHI privacy disclosure in m-Healthcare emergency.