Securing electronic health records with novel mobile encryption schemes

Dasun Weerasinghe, Kalid Elmufti, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Veselin Rakocevic
2007 International Journal of Electronic Healthcare  
Mobile devices have penetrated the healthcare sector due to their increased functionality, low cost, high reliability and easy-to-use nature. However, in healthcare applications the privacy and security of the transmitted information must be preserved. Therefore applications require a concrete security framework based on long-term security keys, such as the security key that can be found in a mobile Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The wireless nature of communication links in mobile networks
more » ... resents a major challenge in this respect. This paper presents a novel protocol that will send the information securely while including the access privileges to the authorised recipient. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Weerasinghe, D., Elmufti, K., Rajarajan, M. and Rakocevic, V. (2007) 'Securing electronic health records with novel mobile encryption schemes ', Int. J. Electronic Healthcare, Vol. 3, No. 4, Biographical notes: Dasun Weerasinghe is a PhD research student at City University, London. His research interests include service-oriented architecture for mobile applications, security protocol development and information security in wireless networks. He holds a first-class honours BSc (Eng) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Kalid Elmufti is a PhD research student at City University, London. He has worked on various security projects, including cryptography and GSM/UMTS security. Recently he has developed security systems and protocols to address issues on authentication and privacy in mobile web services. Elmufti obtained his MSc from Imperial College, London. D. Weerasinghe, K. Elmufti, M. Rajarajan and V. Rakocevic Dr. Muttukrishnan Rajarajan has worked as a Network and Services Management Consultant within LogicaCMG. He has active research in mobile and wireless security with a special focus on healthcare. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers and also chairs some conferences in the area of mobile healthcare. Dr. Veselin Rakocevic is a Senior Lecturer at City University, London. His main research interests include management, quality of services and security of wireless networks. He is a member of IEEE and of the TPC for a number of conferences and has published over 25 papers in international journals and conferences.
doi:10.1504/ijeh.2007.015320 pmid:18048274 fatcat:gx7ffshg4bdzjh7ez2z4b6s6i4