An Optimal Mobile Service for Telecare Data Synchronization using a Role-based Access Control Model and Mobile...

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Mobile Computing
• Network Security

Background:

• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) advancements facilitate healthcare resource exchange.
• Integrating mobile devices into Hospital Information Systems (HIS) offers location-independent healthcare process execution.
• Synchronizing healthcare data from mobile devices is crucial, especially for remote areas lacking public data networks (PDN).

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose an optimal mobile service for automatic synchronization of telecare file resources among discrete mobile devices.
• To enhance the security of telecare file resource synchronization.
• To strengthen organizational mobility in healthcare settings.

Main Methods:

• Implementation of a role-based access control model for telecare file resource access.
• Utilization of symmetric data encryption for protecting transmitted telecare file resources over a mobile peer-to-peer network.
• Application of the ELECTRE (Elimination Et Choice Translating Reality) multi-criteria decision analysis method for optimizing mobile device selection for synchronization.

Main Results:

• A prototype system demonstrated the proposed mobile service's effectiveness.
• The service successfully achieved automatic and efficient synchronization of telecare file resources among discrete mobile devices.
• Experimental results validated the proposed approach for secure mobile data synchronization.

Conclusions:

• The developed optimal mobile service effectively synchronizes telecare file resources securely.
• The service enhances organizational mobility and data security in healthcare.
• This solution addresses challenges in remote healthcare data management and synchronization.