The
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Ministry of Health (MOH)
recently mapped cloud security standards for the private healthcare sector.
This
Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) Singapore Standard aims to bring clarity to
the private healthcare sector on how cloud computing can be used and applied
for their enterprises, as well as trust through transparency of cloud service
providers (CSPs) via certification.
The
mapping guidelines show that the base tier of the MTCS, Level 1, could be used
to host publicly available information such as clinical standards and
terminology systems. Meanwhile, the most stringent tier, Level 3, could be used
to host clinical administrative support systems such as billing and admissions
data.
"Singapore
must continue to lay the foundations for innovative solutions to thrive and
grow in a Smart Nation, and this means bringing clarity to industry sectors to
aid in their adoption. We are encouraged that the healthcare sector can now
look to adopting the cloud with the clarity which our Multi-Tier Cloud Security
Standard brings," said IDA Assistant Chief Executive Khoong Hock Yun.
Besides
the MTCS, IDA recently called for feedback on the possibility of a data
certification framework.
The
agency has been driving clarity in the data landscape through various guidelines
and standards, and is looking into the potential for an expanded framework to
further drive adoption and use of private datasets through clarity. One such
potential use case could be in exploring how a "common tongue" could
be achieved between dataset owners and potential buyers to better gauge
datasets.
Nurdianah
Md Nur
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