Cloud computing in healthcare is a technology that will help to access a shared pool of computing resources anytime and anywhere in healthcare system. But Unauthorized access over the electronic data or phishing, data manipulation etc are common cybercrime nowadays So protection of these data that are transmitted between computer systems, as well as cloud systems is a must to maintain privacy. There are rules that regulate to what extent data about individuals or groups can be accessed or transmitted to a second or third party.Because confidentiality is one of the basic rules of Medical ethics.
Privacy challenges
Healthcare cloud computing has several major risk factors and concerns, including data transmission and access control as it is managed via many people. Moreover when users store and transfer their information on the cloud, while transferring healthcare data is challenging as it has to maintain its privacy and integrity.Though the patients lose physical evidence to their personal information while storing information of healthcare personal data in cloud .But at some point of time they have to put their information which may remain somewhere in system and can be retrieved by hackers if timely proper care not taken.
Data migration from one facility to another is also worth-mentioning.Anonymous absolute full proof security regarding data migration or data exchange in healthcare cloud is a challenging task. Once you move the data then difficulty in locating or processing may be there.
A virtual environment is dealing with a virtual server in cloud where data is stored .It is shared with other customers of cloud service providers. Healthcare organizations dealing with sensitive data with cloud should ensure that the data is encrypted and secured end to end.
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