Threats and Risk on Using Digital Technologies for Remote Health Care Process

This paper provides a comprehensive exploration of the threats and risk associated with the use of digital technology for remote healthcare. Through our "DigiRemote"research project, we aim to find out the challenges and risks involved in scaling remote health care, with specific focus on its technical and security dimensions. The article delves into the use of digital technologies, including Bluetooth-enabled IoMT devices, for monitoring health metrics in remote care settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding the threats in the generation, storage, and transfer of health data. By, utilizing the STRIDE (Spoofing, Tampering, Repudiation, Information disclosure, Denial of service, and Elevation of privilege) model, we identified major threats, which are visually represented via heatmaps and bar graphs for ease of analysis. The DREAD (Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected Users, and Discoverability) model assists in quantifying these threats, categorizing them into distinct risk levels, with detailed description of each threat category. In addition, we also suggest countermeasures for the highest-risk threats. This article serves as a pivotal resource for healthcare organizations and security professionals, shedding light on the risks of remote healthcare and providing mitigation strategies for both the implementation and post-implementation stages.