Onconet: a secure infrastructure to improve cancer patients' care.

The shared care paradigm is the current response to the crisis of industrial countries' health systems. The underlying information systems have to meet the shared care paradigm of communication and co-operation between all the partners involved in. This communication and co-operation must be provided in a secure way. The paper presents the required security infrastructure which has been analysed, specified, and developed within the TrustHealth projects funded by the European Commission. Meeting the challenges of the TrustHealth-2 project for large scale implementations of secure real applications, the ONCONET has been established in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt facilitating the shared care of cancer patients. Both security infrastructure and application functionalities are demonstrated in some detail.