Securing healthcare data using biometric authentication

Authors/Creators

Sharmin Jahan
Mozammel Chowdhury
Rafiqul Islam
Junaid Chaudhry, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

Preservation of privacy and security of healthcare data is very important in the electronic healthcare domain. Unauthorized access or attacks by hackers can breach or damage sensitive data of patients’ health records that may lead to disclosure of patient’s privacy or may slowdown the system. Hence, it is very crucial to provide and enforce privacy and security of clinical data using a secure authentication system. Biometric-based access control over healthcare data can provide the necessary security and privacy. In recent years, biometric technologies have gained traction in health care applications. This paper proposes a biometric authentication scheme to preserve privacy and security in healthcare systems. In this work, we have employed biometric fingerprint as a trait for user authentication and monitoring access to the healthcare systems.

RAS ID

25415

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

2018

School

School of Science

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Comments

Jahan, S., Chowdhury, M., Islam, R., & Chaudhry, J. (2018). Securing healthcare data using biometric authentication. In Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (pp. 123-132). Springer International Publishing. Available here

Recommended Citation

Jahan, S., Chowdhury, M., Islam, R., & Chaudhry, J. (2018). Securing healthcare data using biometric authentication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78816-6_10