Security Challenges in the eHealth Domain: The VICINITY Approach

The eHealth constitutes the largest wave of change in the sector of healthcare. In this context, Internet of Things is of immense importance since connected data would facilitate treatment with more efficiency and comprehensive knowledge and would "act" as preventive medicine. Monitoring health data and making them ubiquitously accessible to predefined and authorized healthcare personnel are shared through various IoT platforms, which usually lack IoT-protocol-interoperability. In this paper, we present the impact of IoT systems in the eHealth services' evolution and we introduce the VICINITY ecosystem solution. Its high-level architecture is analyzed and several security considerations are offering "thought for food".