Operationalizing Privacy Compliance for Cloud-Hosted Sharing of Healthcare Data

Complex patient health needs and care delivery models such as patient participatory medicine require the ability to share data across multiple touch points. Achieving systematic performance management of care processes require an infrastructure that addresses interoperability and data standardization while supporting data governance and privacy compliance. In this paper, we present a framework for operationalizing privacy compliance for correlated cloud-hosted data using Data Sharing Agreements (DSAs) in support of performance management of community healthcare. Our focus is to show how DSAs can be used to operationalize privacy compliance for a cloud-hosted surveillance and performance management infrastructure by leveraging selective anonymization based on both organizational and patient consents. This allows a cloud-computing infrastructure to configure processes and services, including anonymization to ensure privacy compliance and a systematic approach to data governance.