Credential management in event-driven healthcare systems

  • Authors:
  • Jatinder Singh;David M. Eyers;Jean Bacon

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware '08 Conference Companion
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Health processes generate data that must be both stored and shared---often across organisational boundaris. Emerging initiatives in healthcare require the dynamic formation of care teams spanning widely-distributed, heterogeneous infrastructure. These environments suit decoupled communication paradigms such as publish/subscribe. Health information is sensitive, thus access control is critically important. This paper focuses on the management of credentials in event-driven healthcare environments. We describe the integration of credential management mechanisms with a context-sensitive data control model to provide fine-grained specification of data disclosure policy.