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PKI Security in Large-Scale Healthcare Networks

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During the past few years a lot of PKI (Public Key Infrastructures) infrastructures have been proposed for healthcare networks in order to ensure secure communication services and exchange of data among healthcare professionals. However, there is a plethora of challenges in these healthcare PKI infrastructures. Especially, there are a lot of challenges for PKI infrastructures deployed over large-scale healthcare networks. In this paper, we propose a PKI infrastructure to ensure security in a large-scale Internet-based healthcare network connecting a wide spectrum of healthcare units geographically distributed within a wide region. Furthermore, the proposed PKI infrastructure facilitates the trust issues that arise in a large-scale healthcare network including multi-domain PKI infrastructures.

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  1. Wire Communications Laboratory, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, GR-26500, Rio Patras, Greece

    Georgios Mantas & Dimitrios Lymberopoulos

  2. Athens Information Technology, GR-190 02, Peania, Greece

    Nikos Komninos

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Mantas, G., Lymberopoulos, D. & Komninos, N. PKI Security in Large-Scale Healthcare Networks. J Med Syst 36, 1107–1116 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9573-1

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