title: Java-based framework for the secure distribution of electronic medical records.
abstract: In this paper, we present a Java-based framework for the processing, storage and delivery of Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The choice of Java as a developmental and operational environment ensures operability over a wide-range of client-side platforms, with our on-going work emphasising migration towards Extensible Markup Language (XML) capable Web browser clients. Telemedicine in support of womb-to-tomb healthcare as articulated by the Multimedia Supercorridor (MSC) Telemedicine initiative--which motivated this project--will require high-volume data exchange over an insecure public-access Wide Area Network (WAN), thereby requiring a hybrid cryptosystem with both symmetric and asymmetric components. Our prototype framework features a pre-transaction authentication and key negotiation sequence which can be readily modified for client-side environments ranging from Web browsers without local storage capability to workstations with serial connectivity to a tamper-proof device, and also for point-to-multipoint transaction processes.
authors.affiliation: USM Computer Sciences, Penang, Malaysia. alwyn@cs.usm.my
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goh
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine