Taiwan's Department of Health's (DOH) Minister, Chui Wan-ta, announced over the weekend that CNA, a cloud-based healthcare information system for storing and sharing medical records in Taiwan, will be introduced soon to the country's medical facilities. More than 100 hospitals are expected to join CNA where patient diagnostic records and test results will be able to be shared across medical facilities.
In the past 10 years, there has been a world-wide push to computer-based Health Care Information Systems (HCIS), which makes it easier for patient information and records to be shared hospital to hospital. The move away from paper to computers allows patient information to be shared quickly, and helps to minimize medical errors, which result in several thousand fatalities per year.
Most people would first think that security will be a huge issue with sharing medical information on the cloud. This, though is a viable concern, will apparently not be an issue. Complex electronic signatures will be roadblocks for anybody trying to access information, and it will be hard to break codes.
This seems like a great idea to me. Like I said, hospitals are moving away from traditional paper records. The ability to store information on the cloud makes it possible for hospitals to share information across various Health Care Information Systems, as long as information can be integrated across platforms.
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