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Supporting Health Informatics with Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Computing

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Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing

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Recent progression in health informatics data analysis has been impeded due to lack of hospital resources and computation power. To remedy this, some researchers have proposed a cloud-based web service patient monitoring system capable of providing offsite collection, analysis, and dissemination of remote patient physiological data. Unfortunately, some of these cloud services are not effective without utilizing next-generation hardware management techniques. In order to make cloud based patient monitoring a reality, this paper shows how leveraging an underlying platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud model can provide integration with web service patient monitoring systems while providing high availability, scalability, and security.

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  1. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada

    Garrett Hayes, Khalil El-Khatib & Carolyn McGregor

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  1. ES Department, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Engineering, National Ilan University Inst. Computer Science & Information, I-Lan, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  3. Dept of Computer Sci. and Inf. Bao-Shan Campus, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua City, Taiwan

    Der-Jiunn Deng

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

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Hayes, G., El-Khatib, K., McGregor, C. (2014). Supporting Health Informatics with Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Computing. In: Huang, YM., Chao, HC., Deng, DJ., Park, J. (eds) Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 260. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7262-5_131

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