Communication security in open health care networks.
Fulfilling the shared care paradigm, health care networks providing open systems' interoperability in health care are needed. Such communicating and co-operating health information systems, dealing with sensitive personal medical information across organisational, regional, national or even international boundaries, require appropriate security solutions. Based on the generic security model, within the European MEDSEC project an open approach for secure EDI like HL7, EDIFACT, XDT or XML has been developed. The consideration includes both securing the message in an unsecure network and the transport of the unprotected information via secure channels (SSL, TLS etc.). Regarding EDI, an open and widely usable security solution has been specified and practically implemented for the examples of secure mailing and secure file transfer (FTP) via wrapping the sensitive information expressed by the corresponding protocols. The results are currently prepared for standardisation.
Blobel
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University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Pharow
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Engel
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Spiegel
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Krohn
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D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009313:National Health Programs; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014584:User-Computer Interface