Using trusted third party services to provide a secure Web-based medical environment

Author

Varvitsiotis, Angelos ; Polemi, Despina ; Marsh, Andy

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. & Comput. Syst., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

1311

Abstract

EUROMED, aims to define and create the building blocks of a Web-based telemedical information society. EUROMED-ETS, an EC INFOSEC project, provided secure communications among EUROMED participants by establishing Trusted Third Party Services (TTPs) over the Web. Java technology plays an important role in EUROMED and any Web-based medical environment. In this paper, the threats that Java technology introduces to EUROMED are explored and security countermeasures are proposed, utilizing the TTP infrastructure

Keywords

Java; hypermedia; information resources; medical information systems; security of data; telecommunication security; telemedicine; EUROMED-ETS project; HTML pages; Java technology; TTP infrastructure; access control; hierarchical infrastructures; medical cyberspace; secure Web-based medical environment; security countermeasures; telemedicine; trusted third party services; virtual environment; Communication networks; Communication standards; HTML; Hospitals; Information security; Intersymbol interference; Java; Medical diagnostic imaging; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.747119

Filename

747119