Secure mobile impatient identification in hospital

Wireless networking and communication technologies have created different types of wireless systems and solutions for hospitals. These systems are envisioned to coordinate with each other to provide ubiquitous services to hospital staff. However, wireless network solutions leads to the formation of vulnerability for data transmission. The ubiquitous systems used in hospitals have been developed to eliminate or reduce these problems. The main focus of all these solutions is to increase patient safety and quality of patient care. In this thesis, a software solution called IMS-Mobile is developed to solve inpatient drug administration process (IDAP). The proposed IDAP architecture is a complete ubiquitous system and it supports stronger security primitives. The system was developed with Android based NFC which supported mobile devices. In this study, a secured server-mobile device data exchange with asymmetric encryption was constructed. The standard Mifare DesFire EV1 authentication protocol was rewritten, where the authentication steps are carried out by the server. In this way, data sharing during transmission has become more secure. With a mobile application, the process of inpatient hospital stay has been under control until the patient is discharged from the start. Time controls were added to eliminate the problems of correct patient's medication. The system was analyzed for performance, cost and security. Evaluation shows that the proposed system has stronger security, equal efficiency and at little extra cost, than previous works.