This document defines the basic concepts underlying the use of digital certificates in healthcare and provides a scheme of interoperability requirements to establish a digital certificate-enabled secure communication of health information. It also identifies the major stakeholders who are communicating health-related information, as well as the main security services required for health communication where digital certificates can be required.
This document gives a brief introduction to public key cryptography and the basic components needed to deploy digital certificates in healthcare. It further introduces different types of digital certificates — identity certificates and associated attribute certificates for relying parties, self-signed certification authority (CA) certificates, and CA hierarchies and bridging structures.rd edition 2021-02 Health informatics — Public key infrastructure — Part 1: Overview of digital certificate services Informatique de santé — Infrastructure de clé publique — Partie？1:？Vue？d'ensemble？des？services？de？certificat？numérique Reference number ISO 17090-1:2021(E) ？ ISO 2021 ISO 17090-1:2021(E) COPYRIGHT PROTECTED DOCUMENT ？ ISO 2021 All right