Published in:
01-01-2016 | Systems-Level Quality Improvement
A Secure ECC-based RFID Mutual Authentication Protocol to Enhance Patient Medication Safety
Authors:
Chunhua Jin, Chunxiang Xu, Xiaojun Zhang, Fagen Li
Published in:
Journal of Medical Systems
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Issue 1/2016
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Abstract
Patient medication safety is an important issue in patient medication systems. In order to prevent medication errors, integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into automated patient medication systems is required in hospitals. Based on RFID technology, such systems can provide medical evidence for patients’ prescriptions and medicine doses, etc. Due to the mutual authentication between the medication server and the tag, RFID authentication scheme is the best choice for automated patient medication systems. In this paper, we present a RFID mutual authentication scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) to enhance patient medication safety. Our scheme can achieve security requirements and overcome various attacks existing in other schemes. In addition, our scheme has better performance in terms of computational cost and communication overhead. Therefore, the proposed scheme is well suitable for patient medication systems.