Single or multiple tests can be converted into our database and stored with only a few keystrokes for the entire data set. The time it takes to transfer an image and convert it to the standard format is 15 seconds. A typical fluorescein angiogram study compromising 20 images takes 5 minutes to be transferred and accessible on the Web database. Security Security is a major concern for every database that contains confidential data and that is accessible through the Internet. Data must be maintained in a manner that is not subject to tampering or modification.
Security breaches have to be checked from two possible areas.
Viewers without any authorization level have to be restricted to the guest areas, demonstration areas and web pages explaining the operation of the system. Secondly, authorized viewers need to be restricted to viewing only the patient information and images to which they need access. Security is maintained by establishing the level of access that a specific client requires, masking of the patient's identifiers for records that are viewed by clients who are not the eyecare providers for that patient, limiting the level of resolution of images that can be accessed by the browser to prevent pirating of photographic records, and monitoring the access of all clients to individual records. Thus the system can establish if and how often a client has accessed a patient's records at any time. The database records all the patients each physician has seen and restricts access to all other viewers.