title: Making grandma's data secure: a security architecture for home telemedicine.
abstract: Home telemedicine presents special challenges for data security and privacy. Experience in the Informatics for Diabetes Education And Telemedicine (IDEATel) project has demonstrated that data security is not a one-size-fits-all problem. The IDEATel users include elderly patients in their homes, nurse case managers, physicians, and researchers. The project supports multiple computer systems that require a variety of user interactions, including: data entry, data review, patient education, videoconferencing, and electronic monitoring. To meet these various needs, a number of different of security solutions were utilized, including: UserID/Password, PKI certificates, time-based tokens, IP filtering, VPNs, symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes, firewalls and dedicated connections. These were combined in different ways to meet the needs of each user groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Starren
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hripcsak
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ring
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klerer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface