Web-enabled smart card for ubiquitous access of patient's medical record

The combined benefits of smart card to support mobility in a pocket coupled with the ubiquitous access of Web technology, present a new paradigm for medical information access systems. The paper describes the framework of Java Card Web Servlet (JCWS) that is being developed to provide seamless access interface between a Web browser and a Java-enabled smart card. Importantly, the smart card is viewed as a mobile repository of Web objects comprised of HTML pages, medical data objects, and record browsing and updating applet. As the patient moves between hospitals, clinics and countries, the mobility of the smart-card database dynamically binds to the JCWS framework to facilitate a truly ubiquitous access and updating of medical information via a standard Web-browser interface. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.