Applications of Secure location sensing in healthcare

Paul D. Martin; Michael Rushanan; Thomas Tantillo; Christoph U. Lehmann; Aviel D. Rubin

doi:10.1145/2975167.2975173

Applications of Secure location sensing in healthcare

Paul D. Martin, Michael Rushanan, Thomas Tantillo, Christoph U. Lehmann, Aviel D. Rubin

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Abstract

Secure location sensing has the potential to improve healthcare processes regarding security, efficiency, and safety. For example, enforcing close physical proximity to a patient when using a barcode medication administration system (BCMA) can mitigate the consequences of unsafe barcode scanning workarounds. We present Beacon+, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device that extends the design of Apple's popular iBeacon specification with unspoofable, temporal, and authenticated advertisements. Our prototype Beacon+ design enables secure location sensing applications such as realtime tracking of hospital assets (e.g., infusion pumps). We implement this exact real-time tracking system and use it as a foundation for a novel application that applies locationbased restrictions on access control.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACM-BCB 2016 - 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	58-67
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450342254
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2975167.2975173
State	Published - Oct 2 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, ACM-BCB 2016 - Seattle, United States Duration: Oct 2 2016 → Oct 5 2016

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Other	7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, ACM-BCB 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	10/2/16 → 10/5/16

Keywords

And beacon
BLE
Location sensing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Health Informatics
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science Applications

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Martin, PD, Rushanan, M, Tantillo, T, Lehmann, CU & Rubin, AD 2016, Applications of Secure location sensing in healthcare. in ACM-BCB 2016 - 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 58-67, 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, ACM-BCB 2016, Seattle, United States, 10/2/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2975167.2975173

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