Bizuayehu, Getnet Demsash (2012) Framework to Adopt Cloud Computing for Medical Image Archiving and Sharing. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Today’s best practices in medicine rely heavily on the use of diagnostic images and reports, throughout the hospital and in nearly every part of the healthcare enterprise. Since patients are nomadic in today’s healthcare environment there is a need to distribute and retrieve images across different healthcare providers. This often requires the interaction of multiple heterogeneous platforms. Multi-site implementations therefore require advanced integration capabilities and excellent IT skills. In this context, outsourcing of computation and storage resources using cloud infrastructure has become a potential alternative. Recently there has been an increase in the number of organizations adopting and implementing Picture Archiving and Communication Systems using cloud computing model. The research paper discusses the advantages of cloud computing for healthcare and specifically to medical imaging, the limitations of current IT utilization in healthcare organizations. It also discusses standard, legal and compliance issues for healthcare data. By doing so, this research set out to determine how a PACS can be implemented using cloud computing architectures and implementation tools, and developing a framework that helps to provide a complete and timely access to critical imaging/diagnostic information at the point of care, regardless of the source, age or location of the information in an cloud environment. In addition to the general framework to adopt cloud services, a design framework is developed in order to provide medical image archiving and sharing solution as a service. A rigorous analysis of the latest research on Cloud Computing as an alternative to IT provision, management and security for medical image archive and sharing is done. It also took into account the best practices for Cloud Computing usage within different hospitals and imaging centers, by interviewing with selected radiologists, physicians and healthcare IT professionals. The research finding shows that Cloud Computing is a potential alternative the framework is useful to healthcare organizations for medical image archiving and sharing. The paper finally recommends further research directions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PACS, ICT, Cloud Computing. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2018 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2018 09:14 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7229 |
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