title: Session management for web-based healthcare applications.
abstract: In health care systems, users may access multiple applications during one session of interaction with the system. However, users must sign on to each application individually, and it is difficult to maintain a common context among these applications. We are developing a session management system for web-based applications using LDAP directory service, which will allow single sign-on to multiple web-based applications, and maintain a common context among those applications for the user. This paper discusses the motivations for building this system, the system architecture, and the challenges of our approach, such as the session objects management for the user, and session security.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sengupta
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D004181:Directories as Topic; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020407:Internet; D009518:New York; D012984:Software