MedStage--platform for information and communication in healthcare

This application report describes the technologies and strategies used by MedStage, an open infrastructure for secure telemedical internet applications. The infrastructure includes several technical and application frameworks including a public key infrastructure for providing professional security solutions, like certificate-based authentication, secure transport protocol, strong data encryption and digital signature. The key components are an universal healthcare data repository based on the work of CEN TC 251 with extensions for the storage of multimedia data, an exchangeable authorization management, an exchangeable patient index service based on CORBAmed PIDS and a set of XML-based import and export modules. Additionally there are prototype applications for home-monitoring, telereporting and personal health passport.