Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Healthcare System Using Internet of Things
R. Nidhya, Manish Kumar, Rajagopal Maheswar, D. Pavithra · 2022
The rapid advancement in Internet of Things (IoT) associated with biosensors provides many benefits to the humans, such as smart healthcare systems (SHS). SHS offer plenty of opportunities to the healthcare professionals and hospitals to monitor the patients’ health in a remote basis. The combination of IoT devices with the increasing networked nature of the healthcare environment permit the healthcare professionals to deliver emergency and precautionary medical services to their patients more efficiently and effectively. SHS-collected health data are highly sensitive in nature. However, SHS are rendering the patients’ health data vulnerable to various attacks. Maintaining the security and privacy of the patients’ health data are the biggest challenges in smart healthcare systems. This chapter investigates in detail the privacy of health data and security threats of IoT healthcare, as well as rules and policies involved in developing an IoT-based smart healthcare system. This chapter also explains the various ubiquitous legislation and attacks exposed to corporate digital properties and patients’ health information along with the essential existing solutions such as a cryptographic function and a communication protocol for overcoming the existing challenges.