NFC Based Android API Healthcare System
Bankar Kartik1, Joshi Bhargav2, Mungal Mahajan3, Subhash Rathod4
1Bankar Kartik, pursuing Bachelor of Engineering from Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s Institute of Technology, Affiliated through Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
2Joshi Bhargav, pursuing Bachelor of Engineering from Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s Institute of Technology Affiliated through Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
3Mungal Mahajan, pursuing Bachelor of Engineering from Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s Institute of Technology Affiliated through Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
4Subhash Rathod, Department of Computer Engineering from Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s Institute of Technology Affiliated through Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
Manuscript received on March 01, 2015. | Revised Manuscript Received on March 09, 2015. | Manuscript published on March 20, 2015. | PP:21-22 | Volume-3 Issue-4, March 2015 | Retrieval Number: A0550123114/2015©BEIESP
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Abstract: With the recent increase in usage of mobile devices especially in developing countries, they can be used for an efficient healthcare management. In this work, we have proposed a novel architecture for improving health care system with the help of Android based mobile devices with NFC and Bluetooth interfaces, smartcard technology on tamper resistant secure element (SE) for storing credentials and secure data, and a Health Secure service on a hybrid cloud for security and health record management. The main contribution of this paper is proposal of applications for: i) Secure Medical Tags for reducing medical errors and ii) Secure health card for storing Electronic Health Record (EHR) based on Secure NFC tags, mobile device using NFC P2P Mode. Since NFC NDEF format is prone to security attacks [2], we have utilized low level APIs on Android based mobile devices, to securely access NFC tags such as MIFARE. Simple touch of NFC enabled mobile devices can benefit both the patient as well as the medical doctors by providing a fast and secure health flow. It can also provide portability of devices and usability for health management in emergency situation, overpopulated hospitals and remote locations.
Keywords: Android based mobile devices, NFC, Bluetooth interfaces, secure element (SE), Electronic Health Record (EHR), NFC P2P Mode, MIFARE.