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Cloud Computing Services for Healthcare Industry
Abstract
Healthcare sector is facing a number of challenges like high IT costs, more processing power, ubiquitous access, scalability and demand for interoperability etc. Present health technology is deficient to address these challenges. Cloud computing having qualities such as multi-tenancy, flexibility and metered delivery appears a viable approach. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art cloud computing paradigm, presents a cloud driven healthcare service model, and explores different services of cloud for health industry. Paper also shed light on the constraints associated with cloud adoption for healthcare. Paper concludes that healthcare stakeholders can take advantage of cloud services to offer novel patient care applications, reduce costs and management, and ultimately provide quality healthcare services.
... Cloud technologies can be implemented in healthcare as a way for preserving patient information, monitoring patients and observation of diseases more efficiently and effectively. Benefits of cloud computing for HCS are as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
... Cloud driven HCS contain of IaaS, platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) are stacked. Healthcare services are data management, telemedicine, virtual medical universities, management information systems, clinical decision support system and general health education as shown in Figure 1 (Zafar et al., 2014). Service models provided by cloud computing can be as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
... Healthcare services are data management, telemedicine, virtual medical universities, management information systems, clinical decision support system and general health education as shown in Figure 1 (Zafar et al., 2014). Service models provided by cloud computing can be as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
... Cloud technologies can be implemented in healthcare as a way for preserving patient information, monitoring patients and observation of diseases more efficiently and effectively. Benefits of cloud computing for HCS are as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
... Cloud driven HCS contain of IaaS, platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) are stacked. Healthcare services are data management, telemedicine, virtual medical universities, management information systems, clinical decision support system and general health education as shown in Figure 1 (Zafar et al., 2014). Service models provided by cloud computing can be as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
... Healthcare services are data management, telemedicine, virtual medical universities, management information systems, clinical decision support system and general health education as shown in Figure 1 (Zafar et al., 2014). Service models provided by cloud computing can be as follows (Zafar et al., 2014): ...
Telehealth care services are growing up in the recent years. The patient-doctor relationships symbolize a new elucidation to the medical problems of the modern life. With the technological advancement, the life span of people has been increasing in the preceding years. However, as livelihood is more worrying than ever, there are added cases of new diseases. The difficulties of transport in the big cities and the shortage of hospital beds turn the remote care an attractive solution. On the other hand, its routines can be switched by telemedicine. A cloud based information system can offer new possibilities, such as easy and worldwide access to medical data, and opportunities to put together use of the services of medical experts which are otherwise unavailable in remote places. However, they also elevate new risks and challenges with respect to security and privacy aspects. This paper describes the implementation of a teledermatology system for patient monitoring using cloud computing. The system proved to be quick and reliable and represents an applicable solution to teledermatology care.
As the costs of healthcare services rise and healthcare professionals are becoming scarce and hard to find, it is imminent that healthcare organizations consider adopting health information technology (HIT) systems. HIT allows health organizations to streamline many of their processes and provide services in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. The latest technological trends such as Cloud Computing (CC) provide a strong infrastructure and offer a true enabler for HIT services over the Internet. This can be achieved on a pay-as-you-use model of the “e-Health Cloud” to help the healthcare industry cope with current and future demands yet keeping their costs to a minimum. Despite its great potential, HIT as a CC model has not been addressed extensively in the literature. There are no apparent frameworks which clearly encompass all viable schemes and interrelationships between HIT and CC. Therefore, analyzing and comparing the effectiveness of such schemes is important. In this paper we introduce the concept of “e-Health Cloud” highlighting many of its constituents and proposing building an e-health environment and elucidating many of the challenges confronting the success of the e-Health Cloud. We will also discuss different possible solutions to address challenges such as security and privacy.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being widely used in healthcare management systems. Rapid advancements in ICT in the last decade or so provide solutions to the problems in healthcare management systems. These include a wide spectrum of issues such as patient safety, dietary management, telemedicine, digital imaging, document management etc. This paper explores the emerging technologies which are being used for the improvement of the healthcare process and identify the problems and their probable solutions specifically in the context of developing countries. Telemedicine offers a way of improving the standard of healthcare especially in the developing world. The developing countries such as Pakistan, can exploit these to give better healthcare services as well health education. This paper highlights the growth of ICT sector in the developing world and explores its possible uses in health sector. These may help healthcare professionals and community health workers to carry out their work in a better way particularly in remote areas. Keywords Information and communication technology (ICT), telemedicine, healthcare, healthcare management systems, digital imaging, document management.
Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources and services. Many managers and experts believe that it can improve health care services, benefit health care research, and change the face of health information technology. However, as with any innovation, cloud computing should be rigorously evaluated before its widespread adoption. This paper discusses the concept and its current place in health care, and uses 4 aspects (management, technology, security, and legal) to evaluate the opportunities and challenges of this computing model. Strategic planning that could be used by a health organization to determine its direction, strategy, and resource allocation when it has decided to migrate from traditional to cloud-based health services is also discussed.
The health care industry is currently experiencing a fundamental change. Health care organizations are reorganizing their processes to reduce costs, be more competitive, and provide better and more personalized customer care. This new business strategy requires health care organizations to implement new technologies, such as Internet applications, enterprise systems, and mobile technologies in order to achieve their desired business changes. This article offers a conceptual model for implementing new information systems, integrating internal data, and linking suppliers and patients.
Innovation is necessary to ride the inevitable tide of change and one such hot recent area of research in Information Technology (IT) is cloud computing. Cloud computing is a distributed computing technology offering required software and hardware through Internet. It also provides storage, computational platform and infrastructure which are demanded by the user according to their requirement. Due to the growing need of infrastructure educational institutes, organizations have to spend a large amount on their infrastructure to fulfill the needs and demands of the users. Cloud computing is a next generation platform that allows institutions and organizations with a dynamic pools of resource and to reduce cost through improved utilization. In the present scenario, many education institutions are facing the problems with the growing need of IT and infrastructure. Cloud computing which is an emerging technology and which relies on existing technology such as Internet, virtualization, grid computing etc. can be a solution to such problems by providing required infrastructure, software and storage. In this paper a basic research has been carried out to show how cloud computing can be introduced in the education to improve teaching, agility and have a cost-effective infrastructure which can bring a revolution in the field of education. It also tries to bring out its benefits and limitations.
In this paper, we provide an overview of the cloud computing model and discuss its applications for collaboration between academic institutions. Cloud computing is considered a typical paradigm that provides suitable, efficient network login to an appropriate pool of computing resources which can be provided and released with just nominal assiduity and service providers reciprocity. However, many organizations understand cloud computing in different ways. We briefly analyse the cloud computing applications in this paper, and describe some current and accomplished educational and research products. Then, we go on to evaluate the successful applications of cloud computing models at educational institutions, and the different ways to implement cloud computing. Finally, we present different education applications for education infrastructures which are implemented for academic use.
E-Healthcare data management is a core issue in a modern hospital. The data generated is enormous due to newer diagnostic techniques. The medical doctors and patients demand a greater life time for medical data records, they require fast data retrieval, and presentation services for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). The cost on maintaining a data service centre in an average hospital may be substantial both on infrastructure and qualified ICT staff. The availability of large storage capacities and computing resources from Cloud Service Providers (CSP) is seen as an opportunity to save investment by outsourcing information services. Electronic Patient Record (EPR) management is sensitive issue which requires a foolproof security. It is extremely important to develop methods to relieve the clients from problems of security, integrity, availability and cross CSP mobility. We present E-Healthcare models for ubiquitous services for data acquisition archiving and presentation in Cloud. The management issues and security concerns in cloud domains are addressed by a services architecture proposed. The model includes Wireless Sensor Networks besides communication and storage systems for a typical hospital taking advantage of the Cloud Services Architecture (CSA).
Cloud computing is one of the fastest growing opportunities for enterprises and service providers. Enterprises use the Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model to build private clouds, and virtual private clouds that reduce operating and capital expenses and increase the agility and reliability of their critical information systems. Service providers build public clouds to offer on-demand, secure, multi-tenant, pay-per-use IT infrastructure to businesses and government agencies that use cloud services to offload, or augment, their internal resources using a public cloud infrastructure. This paper starts with the cloud taxonomy and model overview. Then the paper describes the Cloud framework and architecture, with characteristics of virtualization and multi-tenancy to build an end-to-end IaaS cloud-computing infrastructure. Logical building blocks for cloud data centers including the virtualized network, compute, and storage resources, which are overlaid with Service orchestration, modular approach and service differentiation elements. The paper also describes phases of adoption of cloud data center by an enterprise.
Cloud computing comes in several different forms and this article documents how service, platform, and infrastructure forms of cloud computing have been used to serve library needs. Following an overview of these uses the article discusses the experience of one library in migrating IT infrastructure to a cloud environment and concludes with a model for assessing cloud computing.
In January 1998 Karen Parles, a 38 year old librarian at a major New York art museum, learned that she had lung cancer. “My doctors told me it was incurable, that I had only a few months to live,” she recalls. “I'm a lifelong non-smoker, so the whole thing came as quite a shock. I was pretty overwhelmed at first. But as soon as I could, I went on to the internet, looking for information. And I asked all my friends to help.
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