Privacy-preserving telecardiology sensor networks: toward a low-cost portable wireless hardware/software codesign.
Recently, a remote-sensing platform based on wireless interconnection of tiny ECG sensors called Telecardiology Sensor Networks (TSN) provided a promising approach to perform low-cost real-time cardiac patient monitoring at any time in community areas (such as elder nursing homes or hospitals). The contribution of this research is the design of a practical TSN hardware/software platform for a typical U.S. healthcare community scenario (such as large nursing homes with many elder patients) to perform real-time healthcare data collections. On the other hand, due to the radio broadcasting nature of MANET, a TSN has the risk of losing the privacy of patients' data. Medical privacy has been highly emphasized by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This research also designs a medical security scheme with low communication overhead to achieve confidential electrocardiogram data transmission in wireless medium.
Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA. fei.hu@rit.edu
Fei
F
Hu
Meng
M
Jiang
Mark
M
Wagner
De-Cun
DC
Dong
D000465:Algorithms; D002309:Cardiology / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003219:Confidentiality; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D013686:Telemetry / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014159:Transducers; D014481:United States