Keynote Talk

Mobile Health: Monitoring and Security

Abstract

The necessity of continuous monitoring of persons at risk and the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions among our aging population present great challenges for any healthcare system. Delays in diagnosis impede preventive treatments, and the associated complications are costly both for patients and taxpayers. For example, costs associated with elderly "falls" are staggering. In 2000, direct costs of all fall injuries, for people 65 and older, exceeded $19 billions. These costs are also expected to surpass $54 billion by 2020. Early diagnosis with continuous monitoring systems clearly is critical to the economic sustainability of a healthcare system. High quality but low-cost treatments, including early diagnosis and prevention, will also significantly contribute to the well-being of persons at risk. Continuous monitoring of patient private health data with no secure protection is not acceptable in today's digital world of hijacking. Monitoring people at risk with mobile devices requires a secure way of health information exchange and a secure authentication/authorization access of these valuable data.

In this talk , we present a mobile-health monitoring system-prototype (Prognosis) and a secure protection/access of the information exchange via a bio-cryptoprocessor. This processor offers strong compression-encryption-hiding mechanisms for protecting information and biometrics capabilities for accessing information.