Implementation of a open source security software platform in a telemedicine network

This paper describes the implementation of security platform based on Digital Certificates using open source software to protect the confidentiality and centralized access control of the Telemedicine Network of Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad (CMDLT) and 14 rural health centers located in the Municipalities Baruta and El Hatillo in Venezuela and Simon Bolivar University (USB). The security mechanisms of information to be considered in this study are Virtual Private Networks (VPN), User Authentication through Digital Certificates and the Centralized Management of accounts and privileges access of the Web telemedicine system, in order to guarantee the confidentiality of patient's medical information transmitted through the telemedicine network. The OpenVPN, OpenLDAP, Apache Web server and PHP programming language were the software used on the operative system Debian[1].