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Programming secure mobile agents in healthcare environments using role-based permissions.

C K Georgiadis1, J Baltatzis, G I Pangalos

  • 1Informatics Lab., Computers Div., Faculty of Technology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece. gxri@auth.gr

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|December 11, 2003
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Mobile agent technology enhances medical information delivery but poses security risks. A role-based approach to authorization improves data sharing in hospital systems and simplifies administration.

Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Computer Science
  • Information Security

Background:

  • Healthcare systems generate vast, dynamic, and unstructured data across numerous information systems.
  • Mobile agent technology is increasingly utilized for medical information delivery, aiding data acquisition and manipulation.
  • Untrained medical staff can benefit from mobile agents, but security threats to sensitive health information are a concern.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the security challenges posed by mobile agents in healthcare.
  • To improve information sharing between hospital information systems.
  • To simplify the administration of mobile agent access control.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a role-based access control approach for mobile agents.

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  • Analysis of agent migration methods and their impact on role assignment.
  • Evaluation of the proposed authorization framework for healthcare information systems.

    • Main Results:

    • The role-based approach effectively manages authorization for mobile agents in healthcare.
    • Information sharing between hospital information systems is facilitated.
    • Administrative overhead for managing access is reduced.
    • Different agent migration strategies lead to varied role assignment methods.

    Conclusions:

    • Role-based authorization is a viable solution for securing mobile agents in healthcare.
    • This approach enhances data sharing and reduces administrative burdens in hospital information systems.
    • Further research into agent migration and role assignment is warranted.