A Summit on a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC)

Abstract

During the last thirty years the world benefits from an increasing adoption to cloud-based healthcare for personal health records. The concept of a Global Patient co-Owned Cloud (GPOC) of personal health records is presented in the GPOC series, containing a systematic review and meta-analysis, a global survey among 100% of the UN member states and a technical sandbox environment. GPOC contains, among other, patient co-ownership of personal health records. In the global survey a consensus was seen for the realisation of the GPOC. Here, we present a Delphi styled GPOC Summit as an indicative exit poll for the survey, to both confirm the results and clay these with spoken words of the delegates in a free discussion. At the summit a unanimous consensus for patient co-ownership of the personal health records was expressed. It was also frequently stated that a GPOC would have benefits for global health, transfers of the personal health records globally and for the dissemination of artificial intelligence in medicine across the globe. The global advantages for patients, both refugees and travellers and for developing economies were underlined. GPOC as a large substrate for global medical artificial intelligence research was highlighted. The enthusiasm for GPOC was unanimous.