title: An efficient RFID authentication protocol to enhance patient medication safety using elliptic curve cryptography.
abstract: Medication errors are very dangerous even fatal since it could cause serious even fatal harm to patients. In order to reduce medication errors, automated patient medication systems using the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology have been used in many hospitals. The data transmitted in those medication systems is very important and sensitive. In the past decade, many security protocols have been proposed to ensure its secure transition attracted wide attention. Due to providing mutual authentication between the medication server and the tag, the RFID authentication protocol is considered as the most important security protocols in those systems. In this paper, we propose a RFID authentication protocol to enhance patient medication safety using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The analysis shows the proposed protocol could overcome security weaknesses in previous protocols and has better performance. Therefore, the proposed protocol is very suitable for automated patient medication systems.
authors.affiliation: North China University of Water Conservancy & Electric Power, Zhengzhou, China, zezhongzhang@126.com.
authors.forename: Zezhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qingqing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Qi
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods*; D061214:Patient Safety; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device / Q000379:methods*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States
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