A Secure Integrated Medical Information System

Abstract

The rapid rise and development of the internet has made digitization of our everyday life common. E-medicine, including electronic prescription records, electronic prescriptions, diagnosis information systems, and others are now being regarded as future trends. As development on the structure and format of electronic patient records and prescriptions matures, the implementation of a comprehensive medical information system is imperative, one which is constructed from integrating the various electronic information systems that is being developed. It is important to allow the implementation of such a system applicable to the present medical environment, which facilitates the integration of electronic patient record from all levels of medical centers and clinics, secures the transmission of these integrated patient records between them, enables the combined use of electronic prescriptions with patients' medications, and permits anonymous or confidential transmission of patients' private data. To put the ideas into practice, in this study, we would like to propose an Integrated Medical Information System.

A Systematic Literature Review on Security and Privacy of Electronic Health Record Systems: Technical Perspectives

“…Digital signatures can provide patient privacy with the aid of a Trusted Third Party (TTP) to investigate any unusual medical transactions and prevent illegal and unauthorised activities. The Certificate Authority (CA) is a TTP, which issues certificates and offers services such as 'keeping public keys, offering directory service, and issuing certificates' (Hsiao et al 2012). End-to-end encryption (E2EE), authentication and authorisation may satisfy the basic security requirements in the lower levels with access control policies in the higher levels (Singh et al 2013).…”

Format mediation for matching patient records in a three-layer information architecture

“…Based on this, the following things need to be considered when developing an integrated medical system : heterogeneous information which need to be shared between several departments, particularities of each department, requirements of medical information systems from local to global, dynamic environment and constantly changing medical information,scalability of medical information systems,scalability of medical information systems, usage of electronic medical record (EMR), efficiency of the medical systems and the latest technologies which can be applied on the medical field [7].…”

A Secure Electronic Prescription System

“…Another study from in Thailand, proposed a Service-Oriented Architecture Prescription System to ease communications between the numerous information systems and, at the same time, protect the anonymity of the involved people (with pseudonyms and proxy signatures) and control the prescriptions emitted (to avoid eventual scenarios of corruption). [8] Another possible solution is the use of smart cards and digital signing. The smart cards in the health area may assume different functions and be used as an ID card, a simple device to store patients' information or an authentication token to access the system.…”