4Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Healthcare System Using Internet of Things
R. Nidhya1, Manish Kumar2, R. Maheswar3, and D. Pavithra4
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
3 Dean Research (Assistant), VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, India
4 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
4.1 Introduction
With the increasing growth of wireless communication and wearable sensors, the various smart developments to handle the real‐world problems especially in smart healthcare (SHC) systems such as mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) are proposed for real‐time monitoring of the patients’ health [1]. To monitor the motions and vital health parameters of a patient, sensors are being attached to garments or wearable devices. The gathered patients’ health information is transmitted to the healthcare database. Healthcare providers will access the health data from the database for further investigation of a patient’s health condition. Even a medical database may be shared with insurance companies, researchers, patients, or government agencies in case of any emergency or needed clarification regarding patient’s health. In the same way medical emergency handling and clinical diagnosis has been developed ...
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