Cloud based Framework for Ethiopian Personal Health Record system is a proposed application, which creates, stores and manages patient medical records and allows access at anytime from anywhere through cloud computing. PHR is broadly considered as means by which an individual’s personal health information can be collected, stored, and used for diverse health management purposes. It contains medication and treatment history that includes patients medical history, diagnosis, treatment plans, immunization data, allergies, radiology images, laboratory and test results. PHR can be managed, shared, and controlled by an individual or their care-givers and healthcare providers. The main intention of PHR is to have access to evidence-based tools that healthcare providers can use to make a decision and disease diagnosis about the patients care delivery. In this work we develop Personal Health Records (PHR) to integrate with the healthcare providers all over Ethiopia and to implement it with the cloud infrastructure. The main challenges that are addressed in this work are data storage, use of data analytics tool for decision making, data privacy, and the data security.

Personal Health Record, Cloud Computing, Healthcare Provider, Patient, Medication History

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