Security for Healthcare Internet of Things

医疗物联网（IoT）技术正在开创医疗保健和健康的新时代，通过远程患者监控、改善患者护理、降低成本以及增强急性护理和慢性疾病管理的健康结果。医疗物联网系统由智能设备网络组成，例如使用无线技术互连的可穿戴设备，传感器和医疗监视器。 虽然这项技术在患者护理方面带来了巨大的好处，但它也带来了新的风险，因为许多连接设备都没有受到保护。对这些系统的网络攻击，从窃听、篡改信息到拒绝服务，不仅会影响患者的隐私，而且会对患者护理本身造成灾难性后果。因此，医疗物联网的安全性在成功部署和广泛采用之前是一个关键的研究领域。 该提案的主要目标是调查医疗物联网系统的漏洞、安全威胁和入侵，并设计入侵检测和预防机制，以减轻对此类系统的网络攻击。该项目将探索机器学习方法与生物特征参数的集成，以确保医疗保健数据的机密性，完整性和身份验证，并在医疗保健物联网测试台上对这些机制进行实验验证。 该Catalyst赠款将用于启动和探索达尔豪西大学首席研究员的MYTech（新兴无线技术）实验室与印度理工学院（IIT）Ropar的计算机科学与工程系之间的长期合作。该提案的主要好处是通过解决医疗保健安全方面的研究差距和培训该领域宝贵的HQP来调动知识和转移知识。这将对加拿大卫生部、新斯科舍省卫生部和加拿大公共卫生署等加拿大联邦和区域卫生当局具有重要意义。

Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) technology is ushering a new era in medical care and wellness, with remote patient monitoring, improved patient care, reduced costs, and enhanced health outcomes in both acute care and chronic disease management. A Healthcare IoT system comprises of a network of smart devices such as wearables, sensors and medical monitors interconnected using wireless technologies. While the technology promises enormous benefits in patient care, it also brings new risks as many of these connected devices are unprotected. Cyber-attacks on such systems, ranging from eavesdropping, message tampering to denial of service, can not only impact patients' privacy but also can have catastrophic consequences on patient care itself. Therefore, security for Healthcare IoT stands out as a critical research area before it can be successfully deployed and widely adopted. The primary objective of this proposal is to investigate vulnerabilities, security threats and intrusions on Healthcare IoT systems, and design intrusion detection and prevention mechanisms to mitigate cyber-attacks on such systems. The project will explore an integration of machine learning approaches with biometric parameters to ensure confidentiality, integrity and authentication of healthcare data, and experimentally validate these mechanisms on a Healthcare IoT test bench. This Catalyst grant will be used as a tool to initiate and explore long-term collaboration between the Principal Investigator's MYTech (EMerging WIreless Technologies) Lab at Dalhousie University and the collaborator's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. The major benefits of this proposal will be knowledge mobilization and knowledge transfer by addressing the research gap in healthcare security and training valuable HQP in this area. This will be of importance to Canadian federal and regional health authorities such as Health Canada, Nova Scotia Health, and Public Health Agency of Canada.