CN-7026 Cloud Computing

Case Study

The use case involves the processing of patients’ data in the cloud; thus, it is a cloud experiment in the area of eHealth. Its purpose is to provide health data on specific patients in the chosen region, via a cloud infrastructure, to doctors of the same region. Doctors can retrieve the data directly and provide patients with treatment and medicaments. The use case in question is run on a non-commercial basis: the main goal of the consortium is not to make profit but rather to test the possibilities of cloud computing in the area of eHealth and to assess if the use case can be extended to a national level.

The data moved to the cloud are the following:

• Physicians’ information (including address and contact details).
• Patients’ health records: these do not relate to specific illnesses but rather are generic records including all relevant health-related
• General health information: this information is not related to any specific patient.
• Details and locations of medical centers and pharmacies: this information is generally useful for users and can be retrieved through a link with Google Maps (the same applies to the above-mentioned physicians’ information).

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The tool, whose goal is that of sharing data and information about patients of the concerned region, is accessible only by doctors of that region. It is also accessible by patients, so that the list of users includes physicians and patients. Health insurance companies are currently excluded.

Regarding the main objectives to be achieved by the use case, the general (and ambitious) aim of the project is to get valuable information for physicians and other health care professionals from personal health information records (based on patient data) and a general health information database (based on medical knowledge), and for consumers to get information on physicians, their locations and addresses (including a route map) in a given country, accessible on any device from any location.

The solution allows interaction between patients and doctors in the sense that:

• Doctors can retrieve information about patients from the cloud, so that every physician can obtain detailed information about the patient even if he/she never seen the concerned patient
• Patients can obtain information about names and locations of doctors in the whole region (and potentially throughout the whole country).

Carry out research about eHealth provider solution based on cloud computing and address the following questions:

• Introduce the core principles of cloud computing in the modern age.
• How cloud computing is used in healthcare.
• Discuss the cloud resource virtualization and its utilization specifically for this case
• Which cloud service/delivery model is beneficial for healthcare provider?
• Discuss the cloud architecture and propose the best architecture for this case
• What are the benefits of cloud use in healthcare sector?
• What are the risks and challenges of cloud according to above-mentioned case study?
• What approach to apply to address these risks and challenges?
• What is the biggest concern with cloud computing in healthcare?

Explain the impact of cloud computing on patients, physicians, and medical centers.