The United Kingdom National Health Service strategy is to have a full electronic health records service available nationally by 2008. Secure, scalable, access control infrastructure will be critical to the success of such an initiative. To this end, a prototype for such a service, built over the OASIS role-based access control architecture is presented. How the implementation achieves scalability is explained and the complex policy requirements are discussed.
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