Exchange of patient records-prototype implementation of a security attributes service in X.500

摘要

In this paper, we will describe a prototype implementation of a secure hospital environment offering the basic functionality that is necessary for secure medical information storage and exchange inside a hospital computer network and the secure exchange of medical information over publicly accessible networks between different security domains. The functionality and security requirements have been derived in cooperation with a large university hospital in Germany, the University Hospital Freiburg. The relevant technical solution has been developed jointly by the IBM European Networking Center in Heidelberg and the Institute for Computing and Society University Freiburg. This paper will focus on the technical solutions to provide the needed functionality.