Secure Collaborative Telemedicine in Rural West Virginia
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SCTA supported portable measures for identification and authentication of health care providers via smart cards and public key cryptography, encrypted health care communications, role-based access to distributed health care information services, and remote access to patient vital signs. We developed smart-card applications3 to authenticate health care providers and to provide a portable emergency medical record for patients4, with links to the patient’s online electronic medical records. We developed three categories of telemedicine applications.
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