A multilayered architecture for the development of smart card-based healthcare applications

Author

Georgoulas, A. ; Giakoumaki, A. ; Koutsouris, D.

Author_Institution

Biomed. Eng. Lab., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

1378

Abstract

The use of smart cards in healthcare promises to improve both the quality and the availability of healthcare services, providing a convenient and secure medium for storing and communicating medical information. However, the adoption of healthcard implementations within the national healthcare systems and IT strategies is relatively slow, blocked by a number of technical, administrative and medical barriers. This paper addresses the above problem by presenting a reference architecture, which facilitates healthcard applications development, covering all healthcare specific requirements and needs. The proposed architecture enables the development of cost-effective, flexible and interoperable healthcard solutions in Java, that make use of ISO 7816-compliant smart cards on different target platforms such as Windows, network computers and handheld devices.

Keywords

health care; medical information systems; smart cards; telemedicine; ISO 7816-compliant smart card; Windows; XML card applications; healthcards; interoperability; medical information communication; multilayered architecture; open architecture; smart card-based healthcare application; Application software; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Computer architecture; Handheld computers; Java; Laboratories; Medical services; Programming profession; Smart cards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279564

Filename

1279564