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Health Cloud—Health Care as a Service

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Next Generation of Internet of Things

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The healthcare sector has moved from computerized procedures and virtual medical treatment since digital technologies entered into the world of health care to more than just Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Through the developments of computer technologies, health care in all forms of industries becomes rapidly online, collaboratively, more patient-centered and data-driven. This vast volume of data produced and the numerous healthcare facilities accessible to patients cannot be protected by conventional technical technology in the healthcare sector. Cloud Storage is an increasingly growing phenomenon involving many providers all delivered via a pay-as-you-go format on demand over the Internet. It aims to speed up the delivery of apps and rising costs. Online infrastructure will play a key role in controlling the movement toward digital data development and medical services everywhere possible. Cloud infrastructure will also provide a major difference to reducing the expense of change of health care, maximizing services and generating a new age in healthcare creativity. The report quickly addresses some of the problems that the insurance sector faces with digital technology. This outlines a framework designed to deliver different cloud-based health resources. The article also describes the distribution of a service that is offered within the mentioned framework.

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Muthukumaran, D., Umapathy, K., Omkumar, S. (2021). Health Cloud—Health Care as a Service. In: Kumar, R., Mishra, B.K., Pattnaik, P.K. (eds) Next Generation of Internet of Things. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 201. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0666-3_39

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