Technical Viewpoint of Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions of Policy Change and Information-Flow in Digital Healthcare Systems

Abstract

Digital healthcare systems often run on heterogeneous devices in a distributed multi-cluster environment, and maintain their healthcare policies for managing data, securing information flow, and controlling interactions among systems components. As healthcare systems become more digitally distributed, lack of integration and safe interpretation between heterogeneous systems clusters become problematic and might lead to healthcare policy violations. Communication overhead and high computation consumption might impact the system at different levels and affect the flow of information among system clusters. This paper provides a technical viewpoint of the challenges, opportunities, and future work in digital healthcare systems, focusing on the mechanisms of monitoring, detecting, and recovering healthcare policy change/update and its imprint on information flow.