Cloud4health – On effective ways to deal with sensitive patient data in a secure Cloud environment

Abstract

The cloud4health project researches secondary analysis of clinical patient data, such as surgeryand discharge-reports in a secure and trusted Cloud infrastructure. Given the data’s sensitive nature, a main emphasis rests on guaranteeing its confidentiality during the course of the analysis. The paper outlines infrastructure developments of the first year of the cloud4health project and highlights requirements towards a secure Cloud environment. The first solution architecture is sketched and the lifecycle of data processing is presented.