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Initial Experiences of Building Secure Access to Patient Confidential Data via the Internet

D.W. Chadwick, S. Harvey, J. New, and A.J. Young

In Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) 2000, Barcelona, pages 182-196, September 2000.

Abstract

A project to enable health care professionals (GPs, practice nurses and diabetes nurse specialists) to access, via the Internet, confidential patient data held on a secondary care (hospital) diabetes information system, has been implemented. We describe the application that we chose to distribute (a diabetes register); the security mechanisms we used to protect the data (a public key infrastructure with strong encryption and digitally signed messages, plus a firewall); the reasons for the implementation decisions we made; the validation testing that we performed and the preliminary results of the pilot implementation.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2092,
author = {Chadwick, D.W. and Harvey, S. and New, J. and Young, A.J.},
title = {{I}nitial {E}xperiences of {B}uilding {S}ecure {A}ccess to {P}atient {C}onfidential {D}ata via the {I}nternet},
month = {September},
year = {2000},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2000/2092},
    booktitle = {Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) 2000, Barcelona},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
}

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