Healthcare 2017 - Cloud Computing Systems and Applications in Healthcare

The Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration (AHISA) Book Series aims to provide a channel for international researchers to progress the field of study on technology and its implications on healthcare and health information systems. With the growing focus on healthcare and the importance of enhancing this industry to tend to the expanding population, the book series seeks to accelerate the awareness of technological advancements of health information systems and expand awareness and implementation.
Better care and better outcomes are goals shared by hospitals, clinics and health organizations around the world. Many of the healthcare players have not adopted technology completely in their environments yet and their primary focus has been on automation of back office systems, payment and reimbursement, digitization of medical records, and business intelligence for regulatory compliance and accreditation. In many emerging/developing countries like India, IT budgets are very low. Investments in IT compete with other priorities like radio logical equipment or operational expansion. With cloud computing, these goals have become much more attainable. Take advantage of a world of many clouds to improve the quality of patient care and simplify clinical workflows. Cloud computing is a new computing model that lets organizations pay for only the resources they need, when they are needed. With cloud computing, shared resources are allocated dynamically to create a highly flexible environment. This enables organizations to treat infrastructure as a service (IaaS), rather than an expensive capital expenditure. Now this technology is composed to alter how health care is delivered, the quality of the patient experience and the cost of health care. Cloud technology is helping with chronic disease management, extending service to undeserved areas and improving health outcomes and medical system efficiency.
This book aims to discuss and address the difficulties and challenges that developing countries have faced in implementing cloud computing based healthcare systems and applications. The editors will seek chapters that address different aspects of cloud computing in healthcare i.e. trust, privacy, security issues, big data challenge, decision support systems and related topics. Additionally, the book will explore the impact of such technologies on public, private, community, and hybrid cloud scenarios in healthcare.
Objective
This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of cloud computing in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement healthcare systems based on cloud computing platform using devices in developing nations across the globe.
Target Audience
Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this text useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics on healthcare systems based on cloud computing and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field.
Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Converging Trends in Healthcare
ICT in Healthcare - Emergence of Technological Developments
Role of Cloud Computing in Healthcare - Introduction
Cloud-based healthcare solutions
Healthcare based Cloud deployment models. Public, private, community, and hybrid cloud scenarios in healthcare
Healthcare based Cloud servicing models
Interoperability Issues in Healthcare due to Multi-Cloud Environments
SLA challenges in Healthcare related Cloud System
Virtualization and its layers due to healthcare Cloud implementations
Cloud specific digitization of healthcare data
Data and storage architecture for healthcare services
Data and Information Services in healthcare
Offloading and Networking in healthcare using cloud
Cloud governance in health environments
Decision support systems for healthcare in cloud environments
Deep knowledge discovery from health using cloud data
Personal health record and payer-based health records solutions enabled by the cloud
Big data in the cloud-challenges for healthcare
Usage Analytics /Event Management
Innovations and improvements in healthcare devices that connect to cloud systems
Cloud based BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in healthcare
Wireless body area networks combined with cloud computing in healthcare
Internet of Things and cloud ecosystems in healthcare
Pervasive e-health and assisted living services enabled by cloud computing in devices
Smart sensor systems and miniaturized devices in e-health applications
Existing tools and technologies in IoT, pervasive and Sensor technologies that make use of Cloud facilities
Mobile based healthcare
Mobile Cloud based healthcare
Offloading techniques due to mobile Cloud for healthcare systems
Mobile Clone for healthcare mobile cloud systems
Mobility challenges in implementing mobile cloud systems
Security Issues in Cloud-based healthcare services
Trust, Privacy, issues in cloud-based healthcare services
Multimedia transmission to Cloud - Related challenges
Image Processing techniques to preserve the healthcare records in Cloud
Image Processing techniques to securely transmit the healthcare records to Cloud
Adapting the techniques like Digital Watermarking etc in records access
Encrypted storage of healthcare documents in Cloud
Access Controls, Roles, and Application-based Access to Cloud specific records
Standards and Recommendations using cloud in healthcare
Socio-Economic conditions in Cloud-based system used for healthcare
Increased complexity of e-discovery if processes and/or data storage are handled using cloud computing
Integration / Orchestration of data from Multiple Provider Systems
Mediation
Quality of Service Control
Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud Computing to Improve Health Care Services
The Future Growth of Cloud Computing in Healthcare