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Recently Cloud based Electronic Health Records Systems have been developed and are being used in the healthcare industry. Albeit the various benefits of the technology, security, trust and privacy are a major concern. In this paper, we present a secure and affordable framework for EHR storage, leveraging the properties of hybrid cloud in securing data in addition to building low power back-end cluster constructed using low cost single board computers (SBC). We detail requirements for a secure cloud based EHR framework and present the system architecture based on the publisher/subscriber model. The framework is developed and tested on a Hadoop based cloud cluster using SBCs as nodes. Efficiency of the framework is measured in terms of response time for various sizes of Data Blocks containing EHRs.
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This work is partially funded by the Robotics and Internet of Things Unit (RIoTU) at Prince Sultan University.
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Qureshi, B., Koubaa, A., Al Mhaini, M. (2018). A Lightweight and Secure Framework for Hybrid Cloud Based EHR Systems. In: Mehmood, R., Bhaduri, B., Katib, I., Chlamtac, I. (eds) Smart Societies, Infrastructure, Technologies and Applications. SCITA 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 224. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94180-6_20
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