Distributed Healthcare System Framework for Dynamic Medical Data Integration

The healthcare industry is making a huge progress in providing an efficient medical care for patients. Although the healthcare information systems are being developed and deployed in several countries around the world, these systems face many challenges when delivering the required medical treatment to a large portion of the populace. Many hospitals and medical centers lack the required coordination and information sharing that would help improve the medical care. In addition, most patients have incomplete or missing health records which would have been very useful for the healthcare staff to provide better care for their patients. In this paper, a design of distributed healthcare system prototype is introduced. The proposed system integrates the various hospitals and medical centers that are implementing this system together in a single virtual intranet network using VPN technology. The connected hospitals operate in a P2P architecture to share their patients’ health records with each other ensuring their availability at all times.