As more innovative Information Technology (IT) utilization brings numerous improvements in medical areas, it not only promotes the medical work flow smoothly in the past, but also enhances the quality of the patient safety care recently. Telecare system is an IT application and offers remote home-care services to the senior citizens and the minority, respectively. Along with aging of population tendency, it is anticipated that will have more and more organizations to join the Telecare services structure. However, the status of the health information integration is still incomplete, and this creates an uneven health care situation for those who need the continuous health check would not be able to receive. Additionally, the users need to remember different username-password combinations in order to login to the Telecare system supported by different healthcare organizations. The identity federation is the standard that offers a "linkable" identity authentication in cross organizations environment. This article proposes a suitable design for the Telecare information system including the topics of the identity federation, single sign-on, and single logout, it will provides a more convenient and more secure identity authentication mechanism in Telecare information system.
Telecare Single Sign-On Identity Federation