Title: Providing secure mAccess to medical information

Authors: Meletis A. Belsis, Ashish N. Dwivedi, Stefanos Gritzalis, Rajeev K. Bali, Raouf N.G. Naguib

Addresses: Laboratory of Information and Communications Systems Security, University of the Aegean, Samos GR–83200, Greece. ' Management Systems Group, Business School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK. ' Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Samos GR 83200, Greece. ' Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KMH) research subgroup, Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies, Applied Research Group (BIOCORE), Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK. ' Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies, Applied Research Group (BIOCORE), Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK

Abstract: This paper provides the description of a pilot system, HERMES, which allows secure mobile access in geographically distributed medical databases. The HERMES system builds an environment where mobile medical personnel perform secure registration and acquisition of medical information. The system can be used as an overall medical communication system on which diverse medical applications could inter-operate and securely exchange data.

Keywords: mobile technology; electronic health records; information security; CORBA; public key infrastructure; medical information; mobile healthcare; m-health; electronic healthcare; e-health; mobile access; mobile communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2007.011480

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, 2007 Vol.3 No.1, pp.51 - 71

Published online: 30 Nov 2006 *

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