Considerations towards security and privacy in Internet of Things based eHealth applications

Abstract

The present paper describes a design of Multi-agent architecture which handles the security and privacy of sensitive medical data. It is based on the Internet of Things technology, in with a plethora of sensors/things can collect a large amount of data about the users, environment, activities and store that data on the cloud for further processing, security and privacy issues may arise. Sensitive data like the patient's name, address or pathologies can be stored and accessed by third-parties. The patient's privacy must be ensured, and sensitive medical data must be visible only to the assigned physician, as part of the patient-doctor relationship. The proposed architecture will use the Remote Patient Monitoring context for validation.