Design of a Trustworthy Cloud-Native National Digital Health Information Infrastructure for Secure Data Management and Use
John Kar-Kin Zao, Joseph Tsung-Shu Wu, Kennedy Kanyimbo, Florian Delizy, Tchin-Tze Gan, Hung-I Kuo, Chih-Hao Hsia, Chuan-Hsi Lo, Shang-Hui Yang, Clément Jean Alexandre Richard, Billy Rajab, Maganizo Monawe, Blessings Kamanga, Nikotelhe Mtambalika, Kwong-Leung Joseph Yu, Chih-Feng Chou, Choo-Aun Neoh · 2024
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Description
Malawi's health ministry set out in 2022 to build a national digital health system, and John Kar-Kin Zao and co-authors describe its design in a 2024 paper. Paper records slow care and leak privacy, so the new system aims to capture medical data on devices and manage it on a modern cloud-native platform.
The design rests on four planks. Connected devices gather the data. A Kubernetes-based setup deploys and manages services. Zero-trust communication guards data as it crosses the internet. Trusted computing lets certified software process records without breaking privacy or national control. A peer network of guard stations watches the gates of the system. The authors argue the platform can scale toward universal health coverage by 2030 while raising data quality and cutting paper.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Kar-Kin Zao, Joseph Tsung-Shu Wu, Kennedy Kanyimbo, Florian Delizy, Tchin-Tze Gan, Hung-I Kuo, Chih-Hao Hsia, Chuan-Hsi Lo, Shang-Hui Yang, Clément Jean Alexandre Richard, Billy Rajab, Maganizo Monawe, Blessings Kamanga, Nikotelhe Mtambalika, Kwong-Leung Joseph Yu, Chih-Feng Chou, Choo-Aun Neoh |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |