NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION BASED ANDROID API HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

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 Near Field Communication(NFC) and Bluetooth interfaces, smartcard technology on tamper resistant Secure Element (SE) for storing credentials and secure data, and a secure health service on a server for security and health record management. The main contribution of this paper is of applications for i) Secure Medical Tags for reducing medical errors and ii) Secure health card for storing Electronic Health Record ) based on secure NFC tags, mobile device using NFC P2P mode or card emulation mode. We have also briefly mentioned a basic security framework requirement for the applications. Since NFC NDEF format is prone to security attacks, we have utilized low level APIs on android based mobile devices, to securely access NFC tags such as MIFARE, classic tags with NFC properties Simple touch of NFC enabled mobile devices can benefit both the patient as well as the medical doctors by providing a robust and secure health flow..