Security and Privacy: Mobile Medical Applications
David Kotz, PhD – Dartmouth College

September 8, 2015      12pm-1pm ET

NSF CISE: Smart and Connected Health Presentation and Webcast
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA, Room 110

Mobile medical applications offer tremendous opportunities to improve quality and access to care, reduce cost, and improve individual wellness and public health. These new technologies, whether in the form of software for smartphones as specialized devices to be worn, carried, or applied as needed, may also pose risks if they are not designed or configured with security and privacy in mind. For example, a patient’s insulin pump may accept dosage instructions from unauthorized smartphones running a spoofed application; another patient’s fertility-tracking app may be probing the Bluetooth network for its associated device, exposing her use of this app to nearby strangers. In this webinar, Dr. David Kotz presents an overview of the security and privacy challenges posed by mobile medical applications, including important open issues that require further research.

 Webcast Access:  https://nsf.webex.com/nsf/onstage/g.php?d=744297685&t=a