Abstract
A medical emergency often results a change of state physical or mental that poses an immediate risk to a person’s life or long term health. These emergencies may require assistance from another person or guided system to get proper level of care. The current practice of emergency frameworks includes different medical teams to improve the response time as well as a first-aid trained (FAT) person who lives close-by can reduce the first response-time. In the case of emergencies, electronic health record (EHR) can provide critical, life- saving information to the emergency rescue team. Unfortunately, the first-aid trainer doesn’t have access to EHR and results an additional delay and poor performance in terms of cost, time and quality of care. In this paper, we have proposed a wearable medical device called Electronic Bracelet (E-BRACE) which allows a temporary secure access to EHR of a patient in an emergency. The proposed system uses Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) protocol to make a service call request and gain the patient health record from the Health Information System (HIS). This system provides outstandingly different and unique features as opposed to the previous models since it combats the security concerns and ensures limited access to the information. The use of password to access the data limits the use of the information by anyone including the patients themselves.
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Nayak, S., Hossain, M.A., Mirza, F., Naeem, M.A., Jamil, N. (2019). E-BRACE: A Secure Electronic Health Record Access Method in Medical Emergency. In: Bajwa, I., Kamareddine, F., Costa, A. (eds) Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 932. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6052-7_2
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