Policy-based encryption and its application in a hospital system

• Main Author: Garson, Kathryn
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2013
• Subjects: Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27796; http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12258

Hospitals are now using electronic medical records and computer applications in order to provide more efficient and thorough care for their patients. The Mobile Emergency Triage system provides doctors with decision support for emergency care by pulling information from a patient's health record and a medical literature database. In order to achieve compliance with privacy legislations PIPEDA and PHIPA, security and privacy measures must be put in place. A new encryption technology called policy-based encryption proves to be quite useful within a health care environment for providing both encryption and access control. We describe a current policy-based encryption system to be used by MET-A3Support---a multi-agent clinical decision support system. We offer a Java implementation of the policy-based encryption algorithms. We also give details about how this system will be integrated with MET-A 3Support to protect the privacy of patient health information.