Firma digital basada en criptografía asimétrica para generación de historial clínico

Abstract

The present work aims to develop a system in which it is proposed to systematize the process of writing and generating medical records which is proposed to reduce the time of generation of records and the reduction of physical resources, especially regarding the use of paper, which health specialists write in the course of a medical consultation, this would also imply the process of optimization in the management of medical records. The proposed system to develop consists of the application of the digital signature mechanism based on the method of asymmetric cryptography or also called public key cryptography. This technology is applied mainly through the application of two tools contemplated for the use of the digital signature: the RSA system (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman) and the SHA-256 hash function. The application of the digital signature to medical records will be implemented through the handling of graphical interfaces that is proposed so that the specialist can write and manage the records at his convenience. The system will address the use of Python programming language and the software libraries OpenSSL applied for cryptographic functions and PyQt5 for development at the graphical interface level. This solution is proposed because digital signature technology has been planned and has been subsequently developed since the 1980s, it is in recent years that this technology has been taken more into account for document management, and like this case, medical records.