An abstract architecture design for medical information exchange

摘要

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems are being widely used by various healthcare providers due to the benefits these systems offer. As the exchange of medical information among different healthcare providers has become a point of interest, it poses serious integration, security, and privacy concerns. Previous work proposed to offer medical information exchange has been partially insecure, simple, and sometimes requires special hardware like smart cards. In this paper we present an abstract architecture design that allows on-demand reliable retrieval of medical information from remote providers regardless of geographic location, time difference or working hours. Also, it does not require any special hardware to operate.