Patient Centric Integrated EHA of Physician Practice Portal Through Cloud Computing Technology

Conventional healthcare delivery system is facing constraints in terms of maintenance of health records, of health care data, interoperability of information communication systems and ubiquitous availability of patient’s health record. The limitation of the conventional health system can be overcome by either replacing it of supplementing it by eHealth solution. If the healthcare organizations maintain patient records electronically they can deliver better and effective healthcare to the patients. Use of information technology in healthcare especially Electronic Health Records (EHRs).This will also help to track patient history with the diagnosis of past and test results. This work proposes e-healthcare architecture using Service-Oriented architecture as well as cloud computing to improve quality of patient care with increased efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare deliver.Out of the proposed e-Health architecture, as proof-of-concept implementation of physician portal have been carried out. Using this physician portal can check medical prescription history, clinical findings entered by pathologist and radiologist, using this system medical data can also be referred for further consultation while ensuring suitable means of data privacy and confidentiality and physicians can prescribe medical treatment and suggest clinical test to the patients by viewing their medical history and current patients’ condition. In his implementation pathologist can enter the pathology reports of the patients using standard report generated by the e-Health system and radiologist can upload the images like X-Ray etc. to the server. This physician portal is designed based on the concept of a Service –Oriented Architecture (SOA). Information exchange interface uses the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) standard.