Mobile healthcare information management utilizing Cloud Computing and Android OS

TLDR

Cloud Computing enables distributed, ubiquitous data management across multiple platforms and applications. The study implements a mobile system that stores, updates, and retrieves electronic healthcare data via Cloud Computing. Built on Android, the system manages patient records and medical images (DICOM and JPEG2000) and is evaluated on Amazon S3 cloud storage. Initial results demonstrate the system’s practical feasibility and performance in real-world use.

Abstract

Cloud Computing provides functionality for managing information data in a distributed, ubiquitous and pervasive manner supporting several platforms, systems and applications. This work presents the implementation of a mobile system that enables electronic healthcare data storage, update and retrieval using Cloud Computing. The mobile application is developed using Google's Android operating system and provides management of patient health records and medical images (supporting DICOM format and JPEG2000 coding). The developed system has been evaluated using the Amazon's S3 cloud service. This article summarizes the implementation details and presents initial results of the system in practice.