title: PKI security in large-scale healthcare networks.
abstract: During the past few years a lot of PKI (Public Key Infrastructures) infrastructures have been proposed for healthcare networks in order to ensure secure communication services and exchange of data among healthcare professionals. However, there is a plethora of challenges in these healthcare PKI infrastructures. Especially, there are a lot of challenges for PKI infrastructures deployed over large-scale healthcare networks. In this paper, we propose a PKI infrastructure to ensure security in a large-scale Internet-based healthcare network connecting a wide spectrum of healthcare units geographically distributed within a wide region. Furthermore, the proposed PKI infrastructure facilitates the trust issues that arise in a large-scale healthcare network including multi-domain PKI infrastructures.
authors.affiliation: Wire Communications Laboratory, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece. gman@upatras.gr
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mantas
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lymberopoulos
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Komninos
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D017146:Models, Organizational
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