title: An end-to-end secure patient information access card system.
abstract: The rapid development of the Internet and the increasing interest in Internet-based solutions has promoted the idea of creating Internet-based health information applications. This will force a change in the role of IC cards in healthcare card systems from a data carrier to an access key medium. At the Medical Informatics Department of Kyoto University Hospital we are developing a smart card patient information project where patient databases are accessed via the Internet. Strong end-to-end data encryption is performed via Secure Socket Layers, transparent to transmit patient information. The smart card is playing the crucial role of access key to the database: user authentication is performed internally without ever revealing the actual key. For easy acceptance by healthcare professionals, the user interface is integrated as a plug-in for two familiar Web browsers, Netscape Navigator and MS Internet Explorer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Kyoto University Hospital, Japan. arwa@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alkhateeb
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yakami
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface