The challenges of security of connected objects and health applications

Abstract

The market for connected objects and health applications is booming and is expected to be several billion euros in revenue in the coming years. Their development will have a similar impact to what we experienced with the development of internet earlier this century but even more it should disrupt the organization of our health system, profoundly change the management of care and revolutionize prevention, but it could also call into question medical confidentiality and protection of personal data. This article analyses the societal implications of OCS, the need for a dual medical and ethical evaluation and the imperative of establishing a security guidelines to which the OCS producers could refer and make a declaration of conformity in the perspective of a “a posteriori” control and not of a “a priori” control which could delay innovation.