Edge-enabled Secure Healthcare System

Abstract

The edge computing works as an interface between the real world data, sensor nodes and cloud devices and provides intended security and privacy features. Use of smart wearable devices embedded with modern chipsets and leveraged with edge computing provides near real time monitoring, display diagnostics of state of the patient health and prevents spread of disease, even if the doctor is distantly located. In this paper, a secure smart health care system is proposed that is supported by multiple physiological sensors, smart devices and edge nodes at patient and doctor end to collect, protect, process, analyze and leverages cloud facilities to manage health records of patients. The analyzed data and requisites data are made available to the patient’s smart devices. The simulation results show that the proposed system demands low latency for patients under different medical condition to enable fast and real-time diagnosis from healthcare professionals.