Health-CPS: Healthcare Cyber-Physical System Assisted by Cloud and Big Data

TLDR

Information technology advances have propelled healthcare technologies, yet the resulting large, heterogeneous, rapidly generated data pose significant handling challenges, making it a big‑data problem. This paper proposes Health‑CPS, a patient‑centric cyber‑physical system built on cloud and big‑data analytics to provide more convenient healthcare services and environments. Health‑CPS comprises a unified data‑collection layer, a distributed storage and parallel‑computing data‑management layer, and a data‑oriented service layer. The study demonstrates that cloud and big‑data technologies improve healthcare system performance, enabling various smart applications and services.

Abstract

The advances in information technology have witnessed great progress on healthcare technologies in various domains nowadays. However, these new technologies have also made healthcare data not only much bigger but also much more difficult to handle and process. Moreover, because the data are created from a variety of devices within a short time span, the characteristics of these data are that they are stored in different formats and created quickly, which can, to a large extent, be regarded as a big data problem. To provide a more convenient service and environment of healthcare, this paper proposes a cyber-physical system for patient-centric healthcare applications and services, called Health-CPS, built on cloud and big data analytics technologies. This system consists of a data collection layer with a unified standard, a data management layer for distributed storage and parallel computing, and a data-oriented service layer. The results of this study show that the technologies of cloud and big data can be used to enhance the performance of the healthcare system so that humans can then enjoy various smart healthcare applications and services.