Secure dissemination of electronic healthcare records in distributed wireless environments
Belsis, P.; Vassis, D.; Skourlas, C.; Pantziou, G.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 136: 661-666
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 18487807 Document Number: 621718
A new networking paradigm has emerged with the appearance of wireless computing. Among else ad-hoc networks, mobile and ubiquitous environments can boost the performance of systems in which they get applied. Among else, medical environments are a convenient example of their applicability. With the utilisation of wireless infrastructures, medical data may be accessible to healthcare practitioners, enabling continuous access to medical data. Due to the critical nature of medical information, the design and implementation of these infrastructures demands special treatment in order to meet specific requirements; among else, special care should be taken in order to manage interoperability, security, and in order to deal with bandwidth and hardware resource constraints that characterize the wireless topology. In this paper we present an architecture that attempts to deal with these issues; moreover, in order to prove the validity of our approach we have also evaluated the performance of our platform through simulation in different operating scenarios.