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Initial experiences of accessing patient confidential data over the internet using a public key infrastructure
D. W. Chadwick, S. Harvey, J. New, and A. J. Young
In W.S. Schneider B. Jerman-Blazic and T. Klobucar, editors, Advanced Security Technologies for Insecure Networks, pages 182-196. IOS Press, Amsterdam, December 2000 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on Advanced Security Technologies in Networking, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2000 4.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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@incollection{2129,
author = {D. W. Chadwick and S. Harvey and J. New and A. J. Young},
title = {Initial Experiences of Accessing Patient Confidential Data over the Internet using a Public Key Infrastructure},
month = {December},
year = {2000},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = { Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Networking Workshop on Advanced Security Technologies in Networking, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2000 4},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2000/2129},
publication_type = {incollection},
editor = {B. Jerman-Blazic , W.S. Schneider and T. Klobucar},
booktitle = {Advanced Security Technologies for Insecure Networks},
publisher = {IOS Press, Amsterdam},
}