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Wonders of IoT In Healthcare

IoT holds tremendous promise in

healthcare by potentially enabling digital health

revolution and advanced patient-care delivery

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Gartner and McKinsey predicts

that IoT will “add $1.9 trillion

to the global economy by

2020,”.

Statistics Speaks

Gartner and McKinsey

predict that IoT will

“add $1.9 trillion to the

global economy by 2020,”.

Statistics Speaks

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Gartner and McKinsey predict

that IoT will will have a

“potential impact of $2.7 to $6.2

trillion by 2025”.

Statistics Speaks

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Statistics Speaks

ABI Research says by 2016,

the sale of wearable

wireless medical devices will

reach more than 100 million

devices annually.

Statistics Speaks

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IMS Research predicts, the market

for wearable technologies in healthcare is

expected to exceed by $2.9 billion in

2016.

Statistics Speaks

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The potential of internet of things in healthcare

domain won’t be realized unless data integrity and

security are built onto the foundations of the

IoT movement.

Findings Says

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 1 :

Biomedical Devices

Some Biomedical Devices are vulnerable to

unidentified security threats. This can affect patient

safety and hamper privacy of data on devices

and networked systems.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Resolution 1 :

Antivirus Software

The devices must be kept up to date with security

patches.

Antivirus software should be current.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 2 :

System Implementation

Many healthcare organizations are bound to follow strict deadlines to

implement systems like electronic health record

(EHR), financial, and other business systems.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Resolution 2 :

Post implementation

audits

Perform post implementation audits

Cross-verify the issues of security, user access and

encryption.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 3 :

Machine-to-machine

communication

IoT comes with a major shift from human-to-machine

communications to machine-to-machine

(M2M) communications

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Resolution 3 :

Monitor M2M Communications

Monitor all activities across network.

M2M communications monitoring would help

identify and stop attacks.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 4 :

Health Information Exchanges

HIEs make patient information electronically

available across organizations within a region, community, or

hospital system.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Resolution 4 :

Common Security Framework

HIE’s security practices must be followed

religiously

Establish a common security framework to be used consistently across

the organizations.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 5 :

Device manufacturers

Device manufacturers also plays very critical role addressing security issues.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating RisksResolution 5 :

Complete Visibility of Devices

Device Manufacturers must be cross verified by

security professionals.

Information security professionals must have the complete visibility

about devices.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Threat 6 :

HIPAA Security

Maintaining the security of protected health information is challenging.

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Possible Threats & Mitigating Risks

Resolution 6 :

Comply With HIPAA security

Comply with HIPAA requirements, including technical, physical, and

administrative

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Takeaways...a strong

strategy is required

complete integrity of the

information which flows through comm channels

devices must only be used by authorized users

authentication of technologies

processes to verify patient and provider identities

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