# A Bleeding Digital Heart: Identifying Residual Data Generation from Smartphone Applications Interacting with Medical Devices

**Authors:** George Grispos, William Bradley Glisson, Peter Cooper  
**arXiv:** [1901.03724](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03724)  
**Date:** 2019-01-11  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/en/paper/1901.03724v1/

## Key points

- Integration of medical devices in everyday life has led to increased use as evidence in civil and criminal proceedings
- Investigating these devices presents new challenges for digital forensics community
- Mobile devices used within medical environments offer avenue for investigating and analyzing digital evidence from such devices
- Grispos, Glisson, and Cooper conducted empirical analysis of viability of using information from smartphone applications developed to complement a medical device as digital evidence
- Artifacts potentially useful in digital forensics investigation of smartphone applications that interact with medical devices were documented
- Research highlights need for new techniques and tools to investigate mobile devices used in medical environments, aiding legal proceedings involving such devices.

## Summary

The integration of medical devices in everyday life has led to an increasing use of these devices as evidence in civil and criminal proceedings. Investigating these devices presents new challenges for the digital forensics community. Mobile devices have been demonstrated to provide investigators with a wealth of information, and those used within medical environments could offer an avenue for investigating and analyzing digital evidence from such devices. In their paper "A Bleeding Digital Heart: Identifying Residual Data Generation from Smartphone Applications Interacting with Medical Devices," George Grispos, William Bradley Glisson, and Peter Cooper conducted an empirical analysis of the viability of using information from smartphone applications developed to complement a medical device as digital evidence. They also documented the artifacts that are potentially useful in a digital forensics investigation of smartphone applications that interact with medical devices. This research is significant because it highlights the need for new techniques and tools to investigate mobile devices used in medical environments, which can aid in legal proceedings involving such devices.