A framework for a nation-wide electronic health vault with a secure multi-cloud hybrid model

The thesis starts with the introduction of the topic. After that it describes what cloud computing is and its various types that can be implemented. We adopt a multi-cloud hybrid system with an Infrastructure as a service approach. Third part gives details about electronic records that replaced the paper-based records in medical institutions. We are designing a system that could store both electronic healthcare records and personal healthcare records together. Fourth part explains what Health Information Exchange is, what could be the benefits coming from it and some efforts that have been put until now. Fifth part states the interoperability requirement in order to develop a full integrated systems and standardizations in medical community. Sixth part examines different papers written in the literature about healthcare clouds and what distinguishes them from each other. It tries to determine characteristics of each framework and implementation. Seventh part clarifies the methodology followed while writing this thesis. It reveals how the dimensions that helped in developing the framework has been established. Eighth part defines the new framework of the healthcare cloud system, states how the data privacy will be protected against internal and external threats. It explains how confidentiality, integrity and availability is provided in each phases of the data journey. This chapter also gives a high level illustration of the topology that could be used while implementing. Ninth and the final chapter is giving the results of the research and concludes the work done by stating the limitations and possible future works.