Alberta Netcare
Encyclopedia
Alberta Netcare is the province of Alberta's
public Electronic Health Record
.
Netcare allows authorized physicians to view the medical records of patients. Pharmacies can use the service to verify prescription details, and to upload medication dispensations.
messages.
Messages are sent and received over a secure
HTTP connection.
protocol involving a username/password combination, and an RSA
SecurID Key Fob
for authentication. Users who are within the trusted networks of the Government of Alberta (eg. hospitals) do not require the RSA key for login.
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
public Electronic Health Record
Electronic Health Record
An electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...
.
Users
There are three main categories of Netcare users:- Health service providers (physicians)
- Diagnostic laboratories
- Drug dispensing locations (pharmacies)
Netcare allows authorized physicians to view the medical records of patients. Pharmacies can use the service to verify prescription details, and to upload medication dispensations.
Implementation
Netcare messaging is performed with HL7-encoded XMLXML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
messages.
Messages are sent and received over a secure
Https
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server...
HTTP connection.
Security
Netcare uses a two-factor authenticationTwo-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication is an approach to authentication which requires the presentation of two different kinds of evidence that someone is who they say they are. It is a part of the broader family of multi-factor authentication, which is a defense in depth approach to security...
protocol involving a username/password combination, and an RSA
RSA Security
RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan....
SecurID Key Fob
SecurID
SecurID, now known as RSA SecurID, is a mechanism developed by Security Dynamics for performing two-factor authentication for a user to a network resource.- Description :...
for authentication. Users who are within the trusted networks of the Government of Alberta (eg. hospitals) do not require the RSA key for login.