Journal of Medical Systems

, 39:101 | Cite as

An Optimal Mobile Service for Telecare Data Synchronization using a Role-based Access Control Model and Mobile Peer-to-Peer Technology

Mobile Systems
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  1. Smart Living in Healthcare and Innovations

Abstract

The progress of information and communication technologies (ICT) has promoted the development of healthcare which has enabled the exchange of resources and services between organizations. Organizations want to integrate mobile devices into their hospital information systems (HIS) due to the convenience to employees who are then able to perform specific healthcare processes from any location. The collection and merage of healthcare data from discrete mobile devices are worth exploring possible ways for further use, especially in remote districts without public data network (PDN) to connect the HIS. In this study, we propose an optimal mobile service which automatically synchronizes the telecare file resources among discrete mobile devices. The proposed service enforces some technical methods. The role-based access control model defines the telecare file resources accessing mechanism; the symmetric data encryption method protects telecare file resources transmitted over a mobile peer-to-peer network. The multi-criteria decision analysis method, ELECTRE (Elimination Et Choice Translating Reality), evaluates multiple criteria of the candidates’ mobile devices to determine a ranking order. This optimizes the synchronization of telecare file resources among discrete mobile devices. A prototype system is implemented to examine the proposed mobile service. The results of the experiment show that the proposed mobile service can automatically and effectively synchronize telecare file resources among discrete mobile devices. The contribution of this experiment is to provide an optimal mobile service that enhances the security of telecare file resource synchronization and strengthens an organization’s mobility.

Keywords

Mobile service Telecare file resources synchronization Role-based access control Mobile peer to peer Multi-criteria decision analysis 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan (Republic of China) with a NSC grant 102-2410-H-025-017.

Compliance with Ethical Standards

We used some information communication and technology to design a service in a mobile device to facilitate employee working in telecare environment. The experiment data is simulated to prove the proposed service is effectiveness.

Conflict of Interest

This work has no potential conflicts of interest.

Human and Animal Rights and Informed Consent

The data does not involve human participants and/or animals, so we have no informed consent.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Information ManagementNational Taichung University of Science and TechnologyTaichungRepublic of China

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