The use of smart tokens to permit the secure, remote access of electronic health records

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Dalley, Andrew ^a   Lynch, Ken ^a,c   Feltham, Peter ^a   Fulcher, John ^b   Bomba, David ^b,d,e  

^a Illawarra Division of General Practice   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c IDGP   (Australia)

^d School IT and Computer Science   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electronic health record; Flash memory; Information security; Patient access; Patient consent; Smart token; Unique patient identifier; USB I key; USB memory stick

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MEMORY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SMART TOKEN; SURGEON;

EID: 33645124060     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2006.008687     Document Type: Review

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