Paper Info
Title
Healthcare teams over the Internet: programming a certificate-based approach
Abstract
Healthcare environments are a representative case of collaborative environments since individuals (e.g. doctors) in many cases collaborate in order to provide care to patients in a more proficient way. At the same time modern healthcare institutions are increasingly interested in sharing access of their information resources in the networked environment. Healthcare applications over the Internet offer an attractive communication infrastructure at worldwide level but with a noticeably great factor of risk. Security has, therefore, become a major concern. However, although an adequate level of security can be relied upon digital certificates, if an appropriate security model is used, additional security considerations are needed in order to deal efficiently with the above team-work concerns. The already known Hybrid Access Control (HAC) security model supports and handles efficiently healthcare teams with active security capabilities and is capable to exploit the benefits of certificate technology. In this paper we present the way for encoding the appropriate authoritative information in various types of certificates, as well as the overall operational architecture of the implemented access control system for healthcare collaborative environments over the Internet. A pilot implementation of the proposed methodology in a major Greek hospital has shown the applicability of the proposals and the flexibility of the access control provided.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S1386-5056(03)00031-5
International Journal of Medical Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Health information systems,Information systems security,Healthcare teams,Internet,Digital certificates,Access control systems
Journal
70
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1386-5056
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.74
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christos K. Georgiadis124027.92
Ioannis Mavridis224027.01
George Pangalos321523.63