Assignment 3: Requirements Report for 'My Health Record' Project

'My Health Record' project, launched by the Australian government, aims to provide secure online access to health information for patients and integrate existing local clinical systems. This report evaluates the suitability of cloud-based solutions for this project, focusing on vendor features, strengths and weaknesses of IaaS, and the most appropriate SDLC approach. The report concludes with a recommendation for the best-suited cloud solution and SDLC model for 'My Health Record' project.

Assignment 3: Requirements Report

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
1. Vendor Features Requirements..............................................................................................2
Reason for suitability.............................................................................................................2
2. Review of cloud-based solution.............................................................................................3
Types of services....................................................................................................................3
Strength of the selected cloud solution..................................................................................4
Weakness of the selected cloud solution................................................................................4
Security and privacy requirements for ‘My Health Record’ project......................................5
3. SDLC Approach.....................................................................................................................5
1. ‘Predictive’ SDLC..............................................................................................................5
Pros of selected approach: Waterfall Model......................................................................6
Cons of selected approach: Waterfall Model.....................................................................6
2. ‘Adaptive’ SDLC...............................................................................................................6
Pros of selected approach: Agile Model............................................................................6
Cons of selected approach: Agile Model...........................................................................6
Recommendation for the suited model for ‘My Health Record’ project...............................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
‘My Health Record’ project is launched by the Commonwealth Government of Australia for
the online access of the health information for each user or patient and to provide a secure
path for accessibility. This project is also for the integration of the currently existing local
clinical systems. This project will increase the efficiencies of the system deployed for the
health care in addition to improvement in the quality of care. It will help in reducing the rate
of admissions in the hospital and helps in reducing the escalated cost of healthcare. All the
users including the doctor, patient and staff can control the data of the MY Health record. For
this, the cloud solution has been evaluated here in terms of vendors, strengths, weakness and
approach for deployment.
1. Vendor Features Requirements
Featur
es
Amazon Web Services IBM SmartCloud
Enterprise
Microsoft Private cloud
1 Cloud resources are
isolated and easy to
manage APIs
Provides better insights
and explore innovation
Promotes easy deployment
and maximizes the use of
IoT to introduce
opportunities
2 Support hundreds of
services
High responding towards
prevention and detection
of threats
Supports enterprise
mobility and security
3 Storage is high and
supports large databases
Uses internet of thing to
connect the world
Improvises the digital
acceleration for great
transformations
4 Supports easy expansion
and innovation
Highly supports customer
relationship for better
business value
Provides a different option
for the selection of
deployment of the cloud-
based solution
5 Works on global
infrastructure
Supports quality
connection and
collaboration techniques
Supports exceptional
security and performance
6 Support computing with
the help of virtual servers
(Amazon 2018)
Supports cloud for high
business value (IBM
2018)
High supportable and uses
all types of platform,
languages and data
(Microsoft 2018)
Reason for suitability
Amazon Web Services: This technology is suitable because of the better features and
productivity of the My Health record Project. It provides long terms commitments and
decreases the budget by providing low prices and pay when it is needed for the project (Singh
2014).
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise: With respect to others, it provides different priced solutions and
option to pay either monthly or quarterly or annually. It is highly reliable and has planned
maintenance for services backups (Viola 2014).
Microsoft Private Cloud: It ensures cost saving by providing different types of offers on a
global scale and with the use of private cloud, it is easy to improve disaster recovery.
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Introduces mobility and business intelligence to the system and have control over compliance
(Harbridge 2014).
2. Review of cloud-based solution
The most widely used solutions at the current market are Cloud-based solutions. This solution
fulfils the requirements of the different sectors of the market such as IT market, software
development and application platform. With the help of this solution, it is to explore and
widen the current abilities and capacity of any requirement. The services provided by the
cloud involve the various area of software creation, coding languages, servers and
networking. These services are the demand of the enterprises which is presented on the basis
of contact and demand (Hu & Bai, 2014). After some research and evaluation of cloud-based
solution, the basic three services provided by the cloud solution are the PaaS (Platform as a
service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and Software as a Service. Deployment of these
services for the ‘My Health Record’ project will help in managing the data and providing the
better services they can offer to their patients.
Figure 1: Types of cloud services
Source: (Rifzan, 2017)
Types of services
1. PaaS or Platform as a Service: This service is used in the context of the development of
the platform where the different application can work with higher flexibility and can meet the
requirements of the service providers. This service is deployed mainly towards the online or
mobile application development.
Examples are: Apache Stratos, Windows Azure, AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Yang & Tate 2012)
2. IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service: This service mainly focuses on providing high-level
services and provides a virtual setup to provide the access to cloud services. Here, there is no
need to deploy on purchasing expensive data centre or either real estate and different utilities.
The virtual servers are taken as rent so that they can use only that much they needed.
Examples are: Amazon Web Services, Cisco Metapod, Google Compute Engine (Yang &
Tate 2012)
3. SaaS or Software as a Service: This service is in context of the development of various
application to fulfil the requirement of an organisation. It is a paid service and found that it is
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purely a service which is user-oriented and requires minimum administration in the addition
of the better communication.
Examples are: Cisco WebEx, Google Apps, Salesforce (Yang & Tate 2012)
For ‘My Health’ project and after evaluation of its need, the best-suited service is
Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS which will help in fulfilling all the requirement of the
project. Here this technology will provide a virtual set up where no extra deployment of
hardware is required and the main services need is advanced computer systems, high RAM,
high graphics cards, better internet connectivity, servers and these components are already
available at the large enterprise's project such as ‘My Health Record’ project. This solution
will provide the support in managing all the services for healthcare and will manage the data
of the customers efficiently. Among the various examples of IaaS, the best-suited service is
AWS or Amazon Web Services. This service is used because it is trending in the market and
shows better functionality in managing the services in the different field according to the
requirements.
For the evaluation of the selected solution, the strength and weakness of the IaaS have been
researched in the context of the ‘My Health Record’ project:
Strength of the selected cloud solution
The services at the ‘My Health Record’ project must be managed effectively and IaaS
solution will provide a better technique to manage the services and this project provide help
in health care to the remote areas also. The strength of IaaS are:
 Saves the budget required and provides advanced and flexible services
 The installation charge is low
 Complaint type facilities are used to manage the system
 Provides a better recovery system
 Maintenance cost is low as there is no such hardware deployment
 Here limited resources are sufficient to work
 Location and time does not affect the service
 IaaS can be explored with the increasing business
 Provide user better interface to support reliability and usability (Ghaffari, Delgosha &
Abdolvand 2014)
Analysing the strengths, it can be understood that there will be less deployment of the
hardware at the ‘My Health Record’ project and will help in saving the money and this
money can be used for the healthcare purpose. Despite some of the strength, it also exhibits
the weakness as described below.
Weakness of the selected cloud solution
Deployment of any solution is not an easy task and thereby every solution have weakness too.
There are some constraints and restriction to the solution that may somewhat decrease the
effectiveness of the solution in the ‘My Health Record’ project. The weaknesses of the IaaS
solution are:
 Professional learning is required
 Software installation required specific measures such as regular updates and updating
of latest version
 Control on physical structure is difficult and high dependency on software
 Support application must be deployed for quick access
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 The speed and quality of the internet connectivity must he high (Ghaffari, Delgosha &
Abdolvand 2014)
Security and privacy requirements for ‘My Health Record’ project
Instead of various advantages of the solution, there should be some security liabilities that
must be involved in the solution such that it will affect the privacy of the data. Thereby
security requirements are:
 Evaluate the solution deployed and document all the vulnerabilities
 Responsibilities must be shared among sponsors so decrease the level of loss
 Use of the authentication security process through multiple factor authentication
 Using the encryption to the personal information of the users of ‘My Health Record’
project
 In order to decrease the risk of multiple login, it better to use sign login policy
 Use of contractual agreement to support legal aspects
 Proper and continuous backup and recovery to survive from data loss
 Protection against denial of service attacks to protect the data
 Instead of single use of single cloud, it is better to use private and public cloud to
maintain the privacy (Gavrilov & Trajkovik 2012)
3. SDLC Approach
The approach of Systems Development Lifecycle helps in getting a better lifecycle approach
to deploy the cloud-based solution and to evaluate its performance. This approach provides a
sequence of activities or process with which the implementation can be successful with the
desired outcomes. The implementation of the solution requires a specific paradigm so that it
works and get managed for the better reliability and scalability (Hacaloglu et al. 2015). With
the use of best approach, the implementation becomes successful and it will benefit the ‘My
Health Record’ project. There are two types of approach which will be discussed here for the
‘My Health Record’ project.
1. ‘Predictive’ SDLC
This approach includes the process in which planning of the implementation is done on the
initial basis and before the development of the solution (Okoli & Carillo 2012). Such
approach is used in the waterfall model. This model is a series of continuous process which
provides better efficiency in the development and it indicates prediction of what will be the
next step in the process will be.
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Figure 2: Waterfall model
Source: (Guru99, 2018)
Pros of selected approach: Waterfall Model
 Uses approach of upfront and extensive planning
 Provides accurate implementation
 High security and privacy
 Easily understandable
Cons of selected approach: Waterfall Model
 Less flexible and have compactness
 Consecutive stages have dependency on each other
 Modification are difficult
 Requires appropriate effort, duration and budget to accomplish deployment
(Manjunatha 2015)
2. ‘Adaptive’ SDLC
This model uses the approach of iterative process where stages are executed one by one and
the processes are highly flexible. This approach is the solution of the limitations of the predict
SDLC approach. This manages the requirements according to the demands of the customers
and also when the scope of the project changes (Okoli & Carillo 2012). This method is suited
with the Agile Model. The team of the project get huge advantages with this approach as it
helps in understanding the service-oriented approach and helps in meeting the requirement of
the organization.
Pros of selected approach: Agile Model
 Enhances the planned implementation of the project with an effective approach
 Support software testing and getting reviews
 Supports improvements and modifications
 Supports better communication with clients to gather the requirements and
engagement of the client in deciding the project
Cons of selected approach: Agile Model
 No proper structure and no advanced prediction
 Always require the active participant to support intensive collaboration
 During of implementation is high due to continuous improvements
 Some of the time delay is large than the specified duration (Manjunatha 2015)
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Figure 3: Agile Model
Source: (Barpanda 2016)
Recommendation for the suited model for ‘My Health Record’ project
From the analysis of the approach discussed above, the best-suited approach for the
development of the ‘My Health Record’ project is ‘Adaptive’ SDLC which will help in the
effective deployment of the cloud-based solution at ‘My Health Record’ project. The suited
model according to this approach is Agile Model which will help in providing services of the
health care at distance place with quick access. The main reason for the selection of this
approach is:
 Business value is considered at priority and hence works with fast deployment
 The process is transparent and the client can see what actually is happening and
suggest the improvements
 Throughput with respect to the outcomes is high
 Focus on business and customer demand
 Provides better usability and flexibility in the deployment process
 Improvements are regular updates from the evaluation of feedback by the
stakeholders (Seguetech 2015)
Conclusion
The report concludes the discussion on the three types of vendors that provide the cloud-
based solution. The features of each solution are discussed and it has also been
recommending that which vendor will be the best service provider for the cloud-based
services of the ‘My Health Record’ project. This project has a different type of services
related to the healthcare at the rural and different area so that data would be high. The
different services of the cloud-based solution have been discussed here such as IaaS, PaaS
and SaaS and in this IaaS model has been selected for the cloud solution. The strength and
weakness of the selected cloud solution have been presented here with appropriate evidence.
In addition to it, I have also provided the security and privacy requirement of the IaaS
solution. In last, I have described the two approaches of SDLC and they are adaptive and
predictive SDLC model. Among these, I have selected the appropriate model with an
approach to deploying the selected cloud-based solution effectively.
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