MedStage -: Platform for information and communication in healthcare

This application report describes the technologies and strategies used by MedStage, an infrastructure for secure telemedical internet applications. The infrastructure includes several technical application frameworks including a public key infrastructure for providing professional security solutions, certificate-based authentication, secure transport protocol, strong data encryption and digital signature. The components are an universal healthcare data repository based on the work of CEN TC 251 with extensions the storage of multimedia data. an exchangeable authorization management, an exchangeable patient service based on CORBAmed PIDS and a set of XML-based import and export modules. Additionally there prototype applications for home-monitoring, telereporting and personal health passport.