Secure communications for PACS in a cloud environment

Author

Rostrom, Tim ; Teng, Chia-Chi

Author_Institution

Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

8219

Lastpage

8222

Abstract

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) have been traditionally constrained to the premises of the healthcare provider. This has limited the availability of these systems in many parts of the world and mandated major costs in infrastructure for those who employ them. Public cloud services could be a solution that eases the cost of ownership and provide greater flexibility for PACS implementations. Moving these systems to the public cloud requires that an authentication and encryption policy for communications is established within the PACS environment. This paper investigated an implementation which uses Transport Layer Security for communications between a cloud-based PACS server and client.

Keywords

PACS; authorisation; client-server systems; cloud computing; computer network security; cryptography; health care; PACS environment; authentication policy; cloud environment; cloud-based PACS server; encryption policy; healthcare provider; picture archiving and communication systems; public cloud services; secure communication; transport layer security; Authentication; Cloud computing; DICOM; Medical services; Servers; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Security; Information Dissemination; Radiology Information Systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6092027

Filename

6092027