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EUROMED-ETS

Identification and Verification of Operational, Regulatory and Legal Aspects of the ETS for Telemedecine
The contact point for the project is:

Mrs. Despina Polemi

ICCS/NTUA
Heroon Polytechniou 9
Zografou
157 73 Athens
Greece

Tel: +30-1-7722287
Fax: +30-1-7723557
E-Mail: polemi@softlab.ece.ntua.gr
Web: http://narcisus.esd.ece.ntua.gr/

Scope-Objectives-Approach

As the number of telemedical applications over the World Wide Web (WWW) grows, security becomes an indispensable service for exploiting and utilizing these applications in real environments. Guidance on security issues in the health care sector is provided by various European projects (e.g. THIS, SEISMED, SESAME, TrustHealth, ISHTAR, etc.).

From the above projects it is derived that Trusted Third Party Services (TTPs) is the new approach to the security problems facing the open systems and the complex infrastructure of healthcare. Establishment of TTPs ensuring that all health care actors can communicate in a secure way is among the tasks of many of these projects.

The first objective of this proposal is using the experts' experiences and findings to identify, define and verify operational, technical, regulatory and legal aspects of the TTPs for telemedical applications over the WWW. The second objective is to implement the above adjusted findings in EUROMED's configuration, which is a telemedical application over the WWW, with regards to effectiveness, economics and acceptability.

EUROMED is a European Commission DG III/B pilot project. Its aim is to collaboratively exploit, combine and support HPCN activities to enhance and standardize visualization techniques to be used in telemedicine applications throughout Europe.

This project compliments EUROMED by concentrating on, and tackling, the issues of security in a telemedical information society supporting regional development.

Expected Results

The expected results are described in the deliverables that will be derived during the project:
  • A complete list of studies/ papers/technical reports/ books/documents addressing the security issues in telemedical information systems.
  • Reports on secure protocols and TTPs functions for the telemedical applications on the WWW.
  • Reports on the proposed solutions and cryptographic algorithms.
  • Specifications for updated version of EUROMED-PC software.
  • Reports on organizational setup, on infrastructure, on evaluation of pilot operation and on necessary modifications to EUROMED.
  • Reports on the attained results, findings, and difficulties derived from this project; on recommendations to the European Union on the use, operation and suitability of TTPs in the health care systems; and on adjustments that should be made in the EUROMED's physical and architectural structure imposed by the results and findings of EUROMED-ETS.

Notice of Conditions

Before downloading, please note the following conditions:

This report has been prepared for the European Commission under contract and is placed on this web site to ensure the widest possible dissemination of the results of our work on ETS. However, please note that the European Commission does not necessarily endorse the content or conclusions of the report. Extracts from the report may be freely taken, so long as the source is clearly acknowledged.

Click here to download the Final Report in MS Word

Feedback and comments regarding INFOSEC,
should be addressed to:

DG XIII/C.4
European Commission
INFSO-C4@ec.europa.eu

(c) European Communities, 2000
Last update date:12 July 1999
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