Cloud Computing For Electronic Health Records

Abstract

Nowadays, many insurance companies and healthcare providers use Electronic Health Records (EHR) in one form or another, most of which save data in centralized databases.  Sharing information across administrative boundaries improves communication between these sectors since patients frequently interact with several healthcare providers and may have different health insurance policies.  Cloud infrastructure, in particular Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), provides users with access to processing, storage, networking, and other computational resources.  With this approach, customers can install and utilize selected software, including operating systems and apps.   Although they cannot manage or control the underlying infrastructure, cloud infrastructure customers retain control over the operating system, storage, installed apps, and certain network components.   Under this Cloud Infrastructure plan, healthcare software developers are in charge of protecting patient data's security and privacy.