RFID Authentication Protocol to Enhance Patient Medication Safety

  • Authors:
  • Sonam Devgan Kaul;Amit K. Awasthi

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Vocational Studies and Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India 201312;School of Vocational Studies and Applied Mathematics, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India 201312

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Medical Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Medication errors can cause substantial harm to patients. Automated patient medication system with RFID technology is purposely used to reduce the medication error, to improve the patient safety, to provide personalized patient medication and identification and also to provide counterfeit protection to the patients. In order to enhance medication safety for patients we propose a new dynamic ID based lightweight RFID authentication protocol. Due to low storage capacity and limited computational and communicational capacity of tags, only pseudo random number generator function, one way hash function and bitwise Xor operation are used in our authentication protocol. The proposed protocol is practical, secure and efficient for health care domain.