Proximity Based Access Control in Smart-Emergency Departments

  • Authors:
  • S. K. S. Gupta;T. Mukherjee;K. Venkatasubramanian;T. B. Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • Arizona State University, Tempe;Arizona State University, Tempe;Arizona State University, Tempe;MediServe Information Systems, Tempe, Arizona

  • Venue:
  • PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Proximity Based automated Access Control (PBAC) model for smart-ED environments which improves the existing ED work-flow by automating mundane administrative procedure for secure information access, allowing caregivers to focus on the treatment of patients. The proposed access model builds on the traditional role-based access control model and extends it by including multiple authentication levels for preventing unauthorized access. We also provide a semi-formal specification for the PBAC model. We further validate it using ultra-wide-band (UWB) based prototype which was tested in ED.