Towards Security in Medical Telematics: Legal and Technical Aspects

Telematics is offering a totally new scope for handling knowledge in the speed of its acquisition, learning, transference and communication. Healthcare professionals maybe misled and the patient maybe treated incorrectly. Secure and reliable information is a must in healthcare if the professionals cannot rely on the correctness of these modern streams of information. The protection of the patient's privacy is another security objective. Intensive national data protection regulations are tod...