Medical Middleware

Medical Middleware Jack Buchanan MSEE MD Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine University of Tennessee Health Science Center Associate Professor, Herff College of Engineering University of Memphis

Middleware for Beginners • A layer of software between the network and the applications • Authentication • Identification • Authorization • Directory Services • Security • Privacy • Enforces Business Rules

Why Do we care about Medical Middleware? • These or similar concepts are: • Needed for secure and private entry, storage, and transfer of patient data, including images • Within an institution • Across institutional boundaries • Across geographic boundaries • Needed to provide a secure and private link of data between clinical record systems and systems for billing • Needed for authentication and authorization of clinical providers

Activities of I2 Medical Middleware are related to • I2 educational and generic middleware efforts • MACE • Middleware Early Adopters • HEPKI • Eduperson • QOS • Other I2 health related efforts • PKI for Health • MACEmed • Clinical and basic research data efforts • Efforts involving HIPAA

I2 Health Science Security I2 QOS I2 Advanced Applications I2 Middleware Early Adopters MACE Shibboleth Eduperson HCFA GCPR VA DOD Indian Health Service AAMC OMG NLM GEHR Collaborations

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