Security of MBAN based Health Records in Mobile Broadband Environment

Abstract

Strong developments in mobile computing and web systems within the last decade have led to their integration in different aspects of our life. This has enabled us to explore new possibilities in the healthcare sector in the form of real time health monitoring and diagnosis systems. Mobile broadband technologies like WiMAX and LTE are being introduced at a rapid pace. This will lead to the development of healthcare systems involving round-the-clock mobile health monitoring, high volume data transmission for remote tests and diagnosis and other real time applications. There are several security issues that should be addressed to enable secured medical data transfer in a mobile broadband environment. In this work, we identify all such security issues and vulnerabilities involving transmission of medical data and propose a security scheme to address some of these issues.