WWW + smart card: towards a mobile health care management system.
This paper highlights the benefits of combining the World Wide Web and smart card technologies to support a highly mobile health management framework. In particular, we describe an approach using the SmartCard-Web Gateway Interface (SGI) as a common interface to communicate and access the medical records residing in a smart card. Importantly, by employing HTTP as the baseline protocol to access information on the smart card, SGI promotes the use of de facto standard web browsers as the common client user interface. The initial implementation of the framework has demonstrated the feasibility of the concept in facilitating a truly mobile access of patient's medical records based on SGI.
Chan
A T
AT
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon. cstschan@comp.polyu.edu.hk
D016494:Computer Security; D003219:Confidentiality; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D014584:User-Computer Interface