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Government Cloud, Healthcare IT

London hospital puts patient data on cloud

By Xinghui Guo | 28 June 2011

Next month in London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital will undertake a National Health Service (NHS) pilot project that will give patients access to their cloud-hosted medical records and also give them to control over who is permitted to access their data.

In this 18 month trial, patient information will be hosted on a private cloud and can be viewed beyond hospital computers and on mobile devices. The project, funded by the Technology Strategy Board and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is projected to cost £11.7 billion (US$18.6 billion).

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is working with Edinburgh Napier University on this pilot along with Flexiant, a Scotland based independent public cloud provider in Europe.

Bill Buchanan, Professor, Edinburgh Napier University, said that this cloud platform will help overcome the divide of information shared between general practitioners, hospitals and assisted living.

“Our system allows for data to be stored with its context, such as where it was captured, and then used in whatever way is necessary through well-managed clinical services,” Buchanan said.

“Security is integrated into every single transaction, and we host it on Flexiant’s cloud, to give us a scalable and robust e-health infrastructure.”

The solution can also be used for patient diagnostics, showing body temperature and blood pressure, allowing for the research into different patient illnesses offering  a ”risk assessment score or early warning score” for early identification of symptoms.

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