Patient privacy in electronic prescription transfer

被引：17

作者：

Ball, Edward ^{[1
]}

Chadwick, David W. ^{[1
]}

Mundy, Darren ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Information Systems Institute, University of Salford

来源：

IEEE Security and Privacy | 2003年 / 1卷 / 02期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK funded this research under grant number GR/ M83483. We thank Entrust Technologies for making their PKI security software available to the university on preferential terms;

D O I：

10.1109/MSECP.2003.1193217

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摘要：

The need of protecting personal information of patients while transferring prescriptions electronically, is discussed. The mechanisms which helps the patients to protect their privacy in an electronically transfer of prescription (ETP) are a patient smartcards and PDF417 barcodes. By these mechanisms patient can control their own data privacy and retain flexibility concerns to choose pharmacists who dispense their prescriptions. The code 128 barcode system has a symology that contains 106 distinct symbols and can convienently store up 20 number of standard in a single barcode.

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页数：3

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