Description

In accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) the patient’s privacy and security is important in the protection of healthcare privacy. At the same time, the number of aging population is growing significantly. Point-Of-care (PoC) applications in hospitals are used widely around the world. The Security Regulations are implemented to provide data integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Therefore, patients ECG signal and other physiological readings such as temperature, blood pressure, glucose reading, position, etc., are collected at home by using Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) and it will be transmitted. At the same cost, patient confidentiality is protected against intruders while data traverse in open network and stored in hospital servers. In addition the following mechanism was incorporated in this project: (1) encryption and decryption for data confidentiality and integrity (2) ECG based Steganography to exchange data. Our scheme also ensures security, scalability, and efficiency.