Secure Integration of Distributed Medical Data Using Mobile Agents

Authors:
Pedro Manuel Vieira-Marques;Sergi Robles;Jordi Cucurull;Ricardo Joao Cruz-Correia;Guillermo Navarro;Ramon Marti
Affiliations:
University of Porto;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;University of Porto;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Venue:
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This article is part of a special issue on Intelligent Agents in Healthcare. This article proposes a secure medical-information-gathering system based on mobile agents that overcomes traditional systems' data availability issues. Information availability is a major concern when the provision of care is at stake. Physicians make their decisions based on available information. Virtual electronic patient records (VEPRs) provide the necessary means for intra-institution data integration, enabling a single view of all patients' clinical information. Nevertheless, patients are mobile entities visiting multiple institutions during their life, leaving a trail of scattered information. This proposal is based on a mobile-agent system that provides IEEE-FIPA standardized interinstitution data discovery, transport, and integration for medical information. It combines traditional security schemes for protecting information with advanced agent-driven self-protection mechanisms and role-based access control. The system interacts with remote legacy applications, thus facilitating integration of clinical documents. Highly sensitive medical information can be brought where needed.