Effective Handling Personal Electronic Health Records Using Metadata Over Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing plays an essential role in managing the personal clinical data, i.e., data storage and access. In overall, improving patient outcomes is a critical phase, and accordingly, personal clinical data are challenging to collect and manage from other sources due to their disseminated in nature, i.e., patient data located at different sources of places such as hospitals, clinics, test centers, and doctor’s office; in overall, data are in the form of structured and unstructured formats like images, text, chart, or hard copies of documents. But when the situation is critical it is challenging to collect personal clinical data from several sources in different formats which cause no evidence-based diagnosis and treatment. In response to such scenarios, we propose a methodology that accomplishes personal health data by exploiting metadata for the organization and easy retrieval of clinical data and cloud storage for easy access and sharing with doctors to apply the continuity of care and evidence-based treatment which improves human lives.