Providing secure mAccess to medical information

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-71

  Belsis, Meletis A ^a   Dwivedi, Ashish N ^b   Gritzalis, Stefanos ^a   Bali, Rajeev K ^c   Naguib, Raouf N G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CORBA; Electronic health records; Information security; Mobile technology; Public key infrastructure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT;

EID: 33846452567     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2007.011480     Document Type: Article

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