Kiuchi T, Ohe K, Kaihara S
University Medical Information Network Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Methods Inf Med. 1998 Sep;37(3):247-53.
WWW-based user interface is presented for secure electronic mail service for healthcare users. Using this method, communications between an electronic mail (WWW) server and users (WWW browsers) can be performed securely using Secure Socket Layer protocol-based Hypertext Transfer Protocol (SSL-HTTP). The mail can be encrypted, signed, and sent to the recipients and vice versa on the remote WWW server. The merit of this method is that many healthcare users can use a secure electronic mail system easily and immediately, because SSL-compatible WWW browsers are widely used and this system can be made available simply by installing a WWW-based mail user agent on a mail server. We implemented a WWW-based mail user agent which is compatible with PEM-based secure mail and made it available to about 16,000 healthcare users. We believe this approach is effective in facilitating secure network-based information exchange among medical professionals.
为医疗保健用户的安全电子邮件服务提供了基于万维网的用户界面。使用这种方法，可以使用基于安全套接层协议的超文本传输协议（SSL-HTTP）在电子邮件（万维网）服务器和用户（万维网浏览器）之间进行安全通信。邮件可以被加密、签名并发送给收件人，反之亦然，在远程万维网服务器上进行。这种方法的优点是，许多医疗保健用户可以轻松、立即地使用安全电子邮件系统，因为与SSL兼容的万维网浏览器被广泛使用，并且只需在邮件服务器上安装基于万维网的邮件用户代理，该系统就可以投入使用。我们实现了一个与基于PEM的安全邮件兼容的基于万维网的邮件用户代理，并将其提供给约16000名医疗保健用户。我们相信这种方法对于促进医疗专业人员之间基于网络的安全信息交换是有效的。
