SEMComm: Sharing Electronic Medical Records using Device to Device Communication

This demonstration showcases SEMComm, an Android application that allows an individual patient's personal device (e.g., smartphone) to collect health data from nearby medical IoT devices and to share pieces of medical records with the devices of nearby medical personnel (e.g., doctors and nurses) using direct device-to-device (D2D) links. SEMComm uses XD, a middleware that enables device discovery, context sharing, and data transmission using heterogeneous D2D communication technologies. Current approaches for sharing electronic medical records use onerous HIPAA-compliant cloud-based solutions that are costly for hospitals and require patients to release sensitive medical records to an external server. SEMComm allows patients to maintain fine-grained control over who has access to their electronic medical data, while simultaneously allowing the patient's record to collect data from multiple medical devices all without the need for an external network or cloud storage. Our demonstration shows how XD enables SEMComm to collect data from a blood pressure cuff and a heart-rate monitor and then to share medical data with neighboring devices using a mixed set of D2D communication links.