Security, Privacy Issues, and Challenges in Adoption of Smart Digital Healthcare

Abstract

Current mechanization has motivated innumerable segments of our day-to-day existence. With the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), smart medical management is using current age group data or information mechanization such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Cloud Computing, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to comprehensively transform the traditional medicinal arrangements and make medical treatment more environmentally friendly, appropriate and personalize. According to Blue Stream Consultancy, “Smart Healthcare is defined as technology that brings better diagnostic tools, better patient care, and equipment to improve the quality of life for all.” Smart Healthcare is no longer the simplest manner of adopting new merchandise and technologies for analysis and remedy, but it includes an extra trade of records a number of the events, a greater energetic function of patients during treatment and, in the end a higher management of medical facts. The Internet of Things (IoT) replace the commercial enterprise spectrum and its software varies extensively from agriculture to healthcare, to transportation, and so on. Health centre surrounding can be very worrying, particularly for elder residents and younger one. With continuous growth of global populace, the traditional make an appointment with the patient’s doctor has misplaced its efficiency. Therefore, Smart Healthcare becomes crucial. Smart Healthcare may be applied in any context, from temperature control for toddlers to caring for the aged. The difficulty and costs of implementation depend on the desired precision of the individual accuracy, functionality and complexity of the software involved. Security and privacy issues in smart healthcare is challenging as patient personal information are share among different parties. IoT-based smart healthcare systems involve authentication, data integrity, identification and scalability, as they use heterogeneous devices to collect patient vital information which need to be process in real time.This chapter analyzes the architecture and basic protocols used in smart healthcare systems, then identifies the security and privacy challenges in different layers, along with secure computational challenges that need to be addressed to accelerate the deployment and adoption of Smart Healthcare technologies for ubiquitous healthcare access. This chapter proposes blockchain-based architecture for addressing security and privacy issues existing within IoT to enable smart healthcare systems. The smart contracts are designed to implement the working logic of each user in the smart healthcare system.