Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference (한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2009.10a
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- Pages.1030-1034
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- 2009
Integrated Hospital Information System with IPv6 for Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment
- Kwock, DongYeup (Queensland University of Technology) ;
- Moon, KangNam (Queensland University of Technology) ;
- Lee, JeongHoon (Queensland University of Technology) ;
- sahama, Tony (Queensland University of Technology) ;
- Kim, Jung-Tae (Mokwon University)
- Published : 2009.10.29
Abstract
IPv6 and Ubiquitous Healthcare Environment (UHE) has become a main stream of the next generation technologies. IPv6 is designed in many ways with enhanced features such as a routing, mobility, scalability, QOS and security as a replacement of IPv4. Also, UHE is developed to provide patients with convenience and efficient healthcare services using the remote home healthcare system. However, IPv4 currently used as an Internet protocol does not have enough capability to fully support UHE. It may result in a restricted implementation of UHE. As a result, research on IPv6 implementations in UHE is increasingly becoming an issue within the healthcare industry. IPv6 has enhanced features to implement the remote healthcare system such as Neighbour Discovery process and address auto-configuration. In this paper, a basic of IPv6 and UHE will be firstly introduced and secondly, benefits brought by IPv6 in UHE will be discussed. In addition, security issues in IPv6 will be analysed to conclude this paper.