Dartmouth College researchers have established a digital "magic wand" to make better home healthcare and to stop hackers from stealing your personal information.
The system, called "Wanda," will be reflected at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications in the month of April.
"Wanda" is part of a National Science Foundation-funded project led by Dartmouth called "Trustworthy Health and Wellness". THaW targets to secure sufferers and their confidentiality as medical records shift from paper to electronic form and as health care growingly moves out of doctors' offices and hospitals and into the home.
David Kotz, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth, claims wireless and mobile health technologies have great potential to make better quality and access to care, decrease costs and make better health. "But these latest technologies, whether in the form of software for smartphones or specialized devices to be worn, carried or applied as required, also pose threats if they are not designed or configured with security and privacy in mind."
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