Cloud Based Electronic Health Record Applications are Essential to Expeditionary Patient Care
Abstract
The Air Force often uses paper to document expeditionary medical records because its IT systems are not properly integrated. To solve this, the Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) and DoD must successfully migrate to a joint cloud based electronic health record (EHR) system. It must be centralized, always up, and easily accessed through a tablet or a smartphone. A successful cloud migration will enable all treatment to be electronically documented jointly and available across multiple echelons in the expeditionary continuum of care. Additionally, patient safety will increase in austere environments. If successful, the DoD will deliver the worlds first globally integrated cloud based expeditionary healthcare system. Qualitative and quantitative analysis in this research concludes that cloud migrations must properly address IT security and cloud privacy concerns. Therefore, the DoD must eliminate redundancies in its lengthy Requirements Management Framework (RMF) process . The DoD must also reach out to software vendors to help them integrate security standards cheaply during product design. Success here will allow the use of application development platforms such as Amazon Cloud as well as Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and telehealth applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1034393
Entities
People
- Edgardo Donovan