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Dartmouth College

2010

Healthcare

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Is Bluetooth The Right Technology For Mhealth?, Shrirang Mare, David Kotz Aug 2010

Is Bluetooth The Right Technology For Mhealth?, Shrirang Mare, David Kotz

Dartmouth Scholarship

Many people believe mobile healthcare (mHealth) would help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and improve the quality of service. Bluetooth, which is the most popular wireless technology for personal medical devices, is used for most of the mHealth sensing applications. In this paper we raise the question – Is Bluetooth the right technology for mHealth? To instigate the discussion we discuss some shortcomings of Bluetooth and also point out an alternative solution.


On Usable Authentication For Wireless Body Area Networks, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz Aug 2010

On Usable Authentication For Wireless Body Area Networks, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz

Dartmouth Scholarship

We examine a specific security problem in wireless body area networks (WBANs), what we call the ıt one body authentication problem. That is, how can we ensure that the wireless sensors in a WBAN are collecting data about one individual and not several individuals. We explore existing solutions to this problem and provide some analysis why these solutions are inadequate. Finally, we provide some direction towards a promising solution to the problem and how it can be used to create a usably secure WBAN.


Can I Access Your Data? Privacy Management In Mhealth, Aarathi Prasad, David Kotz Aug 2010

Can I Access Your Data? Privacy Management In Mhealth, Aarathi Prasad, David Kotz

Dartmouth Scholarship

Mobile health (mHealth) has become important in the field of healthcare information technology, as patients begin to use mobile medical sensors to record their daily activities and vital signs. Since their medical data is collected by their sensors, the patients may wish to control data collection and distribution, so as to protect their data and share it only when the need arises. It must be possible for patients to grant or deny access to the data on the storage unit (mobile phones or personal health records (PHR)). Thus, an efficient framework is required for managing patient consent electronically, i.e.to allow …