Design of cloud-based interoperable electronic health record with advanced security for Indian healthcare industry

Abstract

Developing countries like India are still switching from traditional paper-based health record management to maintaining electronic health records. In India, most of the physicians or hospitals are still using the traditional genericand unstructured Electronic Health Record (EHR) which has limited accessibility and potential security flaws. This paper presents a cloud-based Electronic Health record model which is interoperable from multiple clients with ease of use and better accessibility. Cloud-based EHR enhances the features and functionality by improving real-time cross-channel updates across healthcare ecosystems. Data interoperability has been a major issue with traditional EHRs. With an accurate real-time monitoring system, cloud-based EHR can be the next generation of big data systems that will be efficient, cheaper than traditional EHR, scalable, and have multichannel-based ease of use. This paper will describe how a cloud-based EHR model is scalable, reliable, and has a high-level design for proper interoperability and data security.