Efficient storage and replication solutions for healthcare applications

EHRs(Electronic Health Records) are widely used by hospitals and clinics to maintain relevant medical information about their patients. Medical institutions moved towards this solution in order to improve the quality of care, by providing easier access to information, at lower costs. However, the downside of EHR is represented by the storage requirements which could include physicians orders, prescriptions, lab results, X-rays, MRIs. In this paper we propose an efficient storage solution by analyzing and taking into consideration the requirements of e-Health applications (such as computational time, storage, processing time, costs) and important aspects of data replication strategies (such as data priority, price, data size).