Health Information Technology (HIT) has the potential to improve the health of individuals of all ages, aid medical research, and reduce the costs of delivering healthcare, but its effective use and acceptance by the public and healthcare professionals depend on … Continue reading
Remote attestation provides a capability to query systems to determine if they are running trusted software or firmware. New technologies for integrity aware architectures provide the low level support to implement such integrity measures on a wide range of systems, … Continue reading
The PCAST workgroup made its report to the HITPC and HITSC committees of the ONC. The workgroup felt that the PCAST report provides a compelling vision that could be an important aspect of the learning healthcare system, notes that major policy and … Continue reading
Cognitive radios offer ways to better exploit unused radio spectrum if accurate spectrum availability data can be obtained. Techniques based on signal propagation analysis and machine learning can limit the risks arising from bad spectrum data provided by malicious parties. Recently … Continue reading
Increasing connectivity of electric power grid substation networks has led to concerns about the security of multicast communications on the substation networks. New research shows how suitable design based on IPsec can provide security with low latency. Smart grid technologies … Continue reading
Smart grid load shedding of consumer appliances during peak periods is challenged by the need to have trustworthy responses from these appliances. A new design shows how this can be achieved with a “trust-but-verify” framework. One strategy for getting load … Continue reading
