An Interoperable Cross-Context Architecture to Manage Distributed Personal E-Health Information

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Author(s): Mina Deng (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Cock Danny De (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)and Bart Preneel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal), Antonio J. Tavares (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)and Ricardo Simoes (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave and University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-670-4.ch027

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Medicine & Healthcare

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Ensuring interoperability across different healthcare providers becomes an important issue with a potentially large return on investment (ROI) potential when multiple healthcare providers are collaborating in an e-Health system. In cross-context communications, the same information can be expressed by means of different types or values. This chapter proposes a new architecture for cross-context identity management in the e-Health application domain, aiming to improve interoperability between healthcare providers when context-specific information, such as patients’ identifiers, is transferred from one context to another. Furthermore, an algorithm for issuing and converting context-specific identifiers, based on cryptographic techniques, is presented. How the proposed cross-context interoperability service can be integrated in a real-word e-Health system is explained with a use case scenario.

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