Security Handler for a HL/7 Electronic Data Interchange

Abstract

The promotion of medical treatment quality is very important to the healthcare providers as well as patients. It needs to combine the different hospitals’ medical resources to realize the goal of sharing medical information to reduce the unnecessary wastes. Computer-based patient record is one of the best consideration methods to accomplish the patient’s clinical data interchange. The Health Level/Seven (HL/7) formal is used to achieve the clinical data interchange for healthcare requirements, since it has been supported by many healthcare providers and becomes a standard reference. The security of clinical data interchange is a serious issue for people using computer by inter net communication. Therefore, several international well-developed security algorithms, models and secure policies are adopted to design a security handler for HL/7 architecture. The main goal is to establish a safety delivering channel for a HL/7 electronic data interchange. A suitable security environment is implemented to improve some shortcomings of clinical data interchange.