Work

Toward a safe integrated clinical environment

Year: 2012

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: With a vision emerging for dynamically composable and interoperable medical devices and information systems, many communication standards have been proposed, and more are in development. However, few include sufficiently comprehensive or flexible security mechanisms to meet current and future safety needs. In this work, we enumerate security requirements for the communication stack of a medical composition framework. We then survey existing medical and non-medical communication standards and find significant gaps between required properties and those that can be fulfilled even by combinations of currently standardized protocols. This paper is meant to inform future work on building such a comprehensive protocol stack or standardizing protocols and protocol suites that satisfy the properties needed for safe and secure next-generation device coordination.

DOI: 10.1145/2342536.2342540

Authors: Denis Foo Kune, Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Eugene Vasserman, Insup Lee, Yongdae Kim

Institutions: University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, Kansas State University

Language: English

Topic: IoT and Edge/Fog Computing

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Award: CPS: Large: Assuring the Safety, Security and Reliability of Medical Device Cyber Physical Systems