Cloud Computing Framework for e-Health Security Requirements and Security Policy Rules Case Study: A European Cloud-Based Health System

The final few years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have delivered the concept of central enterprise model in e-health. Healthcare is increasingly being supported via IT functions and new technologies, such as Cloud Computing. But sharing sensitive private data in Cloud Computing can be risky, when an unauthorized person gets access to this information and uses this in a different way than those supposed by the Providers. Numerous nations are sharp to go their typical health care services to the modern innovation of Cloud Computing, in order to move forward the first-class of care and to limit the cost. In any case, these possibilities introduce new safety risks and require a special treatment of safety issues, which cannot be ignored. Our work focuses on analyzing the challenges when using Cloud Computing in e-health systems and on moderation of these risks. In this paper, we present a list of the main security requirements that have to be viewed when migrating an e-health system to a SaaS Cloud Computing environment by means of each Health-care Providers and Cloud Service Providers and at the same time we propose some basic provisions to mitigate the significant risks.