NDLI: A secure RBAC mobile agent access control model for healthcare institutions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Santos-Pereira, C. Augusto, A.B. Cruz-Correia, R. Correia, M.E.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal (Augusto, A.B.; Correia, M.E.) \|\| Center for Res. in Health Technol. & Inf. Syst. - CINTESIS, Univ. of Porto, Porto, Portugal (Santos-Pereira, C.) \|\| Dept. of Health Inf. & Decision Sci. (CIDES), FMUP, Porto, Portugal (Cruz-Correia, R.)
Abstract	In medical organizations, healthcare providers need to have fast access to patients' medical information in order to make accurate diagnoses as well as to provide appropriate treatments. Efficient healthcare is thus highly dependent on doctors being provided with access to patients' medical information at the right time and place. However it frequently happens that critical pieces of pertinent information end up not being used because they are located in information systems that do not inter-operate in a timely manner. Unfortunately the standard operational mode for many healthcare applications, and even healthcare institutions, is to be managed and operated as isolated islands that do not share information in an efficient manner. There are many reasons that contribute to this grim state of affairs, but what interests us the most is the lack of enforceable security policies for systems interoperability and data exchange and the existence of many heterogeneous legacy systems that are almost impossible to directly include into any reasonable secure interoperable workflow. In this paper we propose a RBAC mobile agent access control model supported by a specially managed public key infrastructure for mobile agent's strong authentication and access control. Our aim is to create the right means for doctors to be provided with timely accurate information, which would be otherwise inaccessible, by the means of strongly authenticated mobile agents capable of securely bridging otherwise isolated institutional eHealth domains and legacy applications.
Starting Page	349
Ending Page	354
File Size	1670293
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479910533
DOI	10.1109/CBMS.2013.6627814
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-06-20
Publisher Place	Portugal
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mobile agents Access control Clinical diagnosis Information systems Authentication Hospitals Mobile agent Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Health Information Systems (HIS) Interoperability Information Security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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