Privacy and Security Implementation in Existing Cloud Based Electronic Health Records - A DetailedReview

Abstract

Over the recent years, cloud computing has emerged as a powerful means for providing automated
healthcare facilities. Cloud helps in massive sharing of information between doctors and hospitals using
Electronic Health Records. This major transformation has changed the way doctors and hospitals deliver
quality and effective service to their patients. Using Cloud storage inhealthcare services has revolutionized health industry, making it more efficient. Apart from the primary driving factors of cloud like flexibility in cost of maintenance, infrastructure and development, on-demand scalability of storage centers and
pay on use schemes are proven to be most effective. More and more digitalization of data causes breech
of security and privacy.Because healthcare information is a highly sensitive data which cannot be compromised,the future of healthcare relies in providing secure and trustworthy sharing of data by safeguarding privacy and trust. This paper gives an extensive review of the existing security mechanisms for
Cloud based healthcare systems.