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any transactions and every access in the content
stored in the EHR Cloud is included in the pro-
posed architecture in order to ensure that auditing
is done properly.
7 CONCLUSIONS
This paper proposed a Cloud-based EHR approach
used for safely storing EHRs in the Cloud, while au-
thorizing healthcare professionals to have access to
this content when an emergency situation occurs. The
proposed architecture automates the procedure of au-
thentication and access to the EHR Cloud, thus accel-
erating the process of healthcare services provision.
In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed
EHR Cloud, experiments were executed and the pre-
liminary results are presented. In addition, the re-
quirements that every EHR Cloud should meet are
presented, along with the way those are addressed in
the proposed architecture.
It is within our future goals to perform addi-
tional evaluation to the proposed EHR Cloud-based
approach. Moreover, we plan on researching on the
integration of the edge cloud to the current architec-
ture in order to reduce latency issues that may arise.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research leading to this result has received fund-
ing from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 re-
search and innovation programme under grant agree-
ment No 826106 (InteropEHRate project).
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