Security in networked and intelligent medical and therapeutic equipment

Over the last few years, healthcare administrations have been digitizing and device Iot their provision of carethat led to an increased number of networked medical devices and medical telemetry. Due to such digitization,medical devices have made phenomenal strides in the course of the last half-century. These networked medicaldevices enhanced the quality and accessibility of health treatments by achieving pervasive healthcare vision.Moreover, these devices have transformed the canvas of medical treatments and improved the lives of themasses. Such innovation assisted in paving the way for reliable healthcare facilities through the introductionof new areas of therapeutic and diagnostic treatments. Medical devices nowadays are portable, networked andcapable enough to facilitate human lives. The refined quality and variety of these devices put forward apromising future. However, on the other hand, the healthcare sector is experiencing the greatest amount ofsecurity breaches due to the presence of security flaws in medical devices. As these devices are no longerstandalone systems and are networkconnected, the attack surface has increased profoundly. Actually, devicesin practice were designed, developed and disseminated long ago. Therefore, they were not developed from theground up with security as a vital design constraint. The flaws present in these devices have acquired theconsideration of researchers from both industry and academia. In this paper, In this article, various securityissues in smart medical equipment were investigated. .We concluded this survey paper with some openresearch areas that should be properly considered in order to secure these life-critical medical devices.

Keywords:

Security , privacy , Internet of Medical Things , IoMT , mIoT , healthcare systems