Toward a safe integrated clinical environment: a communication security perspective

Authors:
Denis Foo Kune;Krishna Venkatasubramanian;Eugene Vasserman;Insup Lee;Yongdae Kim
Affiliations:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM workshop on Medical communication systems
Year:
2012

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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.