The Internet of things (IoT) is revolutionizing varied industries but health care in specific stands the most to gain or lose. The race to replace paper with digital files, the growing practice of tele-medicine, the ubiquity of mobile devices and the increasing connections of sensitive patient information to the web, has changed the way how we see the ill, treat the sick and research new medicines. Now has come the time that it’s no surprise that these advances may increase healthcare quality and availability. However at the same time, it increases the chances for cybercrimes and ends up putting the most such vulnerable data from the modern biology labs and experiment med-warehouses at risk.There is no doubt when we say that the Internet of Things (IoT) holds tremendous promise in healthcare by potentially enabling digital health revolution and advanced patient-care delivery. However, 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. Possible Threats Areas and Mitigating Risks: The noticeable challenges faced by healthcare organizations today are cyber threats (new directed threat scenarios can be categorized as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)) which have increased and evolved by cyber criminals and hacktivists. This varies from earlier days when many attacks and frauds were carried out by individuals simply looking to demonstrate their computer hacking skills by disrupting company websites or their networks. - Biomedical Devices - System Implementation - Machine-to-machine communication - Health Information Exchanges - Device manufacturers - HIPAA Security With this we can conclude that the necessary infrastructure to properly manage and optimize the proliferation of connected devices in healthcare domain starts with security. A strong strategy is required with includes authentication technologies and processes to verify patient and provider identities. This also validates that these devices can only be used by authorized users. Proper surety must be taken that there is complete integrity of the information which flows through communication channels between the devices with the IoT environment. Putting these security building blocks at the correct places helps in creating a closed and security loop system hence patients and provider can securely interact and in a more meaningful and engaging way.

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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,”.
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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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ABI Research says
by 2016, the sale of
wearable wireless
medical devices will
reach more than 100
million devices
annually.
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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 Risks
Resolution 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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