Layered Secure Medical Information Exchange Platform

This paper proposes a layered architecture for medical information exchanges using internet mail protocols. This architecture realizes smooth and flexible communication between different systems and equipments. In medical fields, every system must pay attention to much security measures for medical information exchange via public network. However, there are innumerable medical information systems, medical equipments, and also data exchange specifications. Therefore, such differentia disturbs to construct smooth secure communication between different systems. The proposed system has three layers architecture to reduce such differentia. A prototype system implemented web-mail interface based on proposed platform. Experimental result shows, proposed platform can realize smooth and flexible secure communication.