Securing electronic healthcare records: A mobile-based biometric authentication approach

Abstract

In the Healthcare 4.0 era, recent breakthroughs in emerging and disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotics, have significantly changed the way in which healthcare services are delivered to patients. Advancements in patient monitoring systems and wearable devices have created more powerful and flexible real-time remote patient observation. Healthcare provision has experienced remarkable improvements facilitated by cloud computing and wireless technologies, while wireless sensor networks now play an important role in mobile technologies for e-healthcare. In this paper, we propose a mobile-based healthcare system for the Healthcare 4.0 era. The proposed approach enables patients to self-authenticate, using their own mobile and wearable devices, establishing a session key between owned devices. After mutual authentication, the cloud server verifies each user. The security of the approach is described through the AVISPA tool. We analyze the embedded security and functionality which improves the healthcare system and calculate the relative communication and computation costs. Results show that the proposed approach provides greater security compared to other state-of-the-art schemes.