ITECH5500: Cloud Computing Solution for Healthcare Data Collection

This report presents a research proposal focusing on a cloud computing solution for patient data collection in healthcare. It addresses the limitations of current manual and labor-intensive methods, proposing a system based on utility computing and wireless sensor networks. The proposal outlines the collection, processing, and distribution of patient data in the cloud, emphasizing remote access for medical staff. The report includes a synthesis matrix analyzing relevant articles on cloud-enabled wireless body area networks (WBANs) for pervasive healthcare and security management in cloud computing for healthcare. The WBAN article discusses architecture, communication standards, and hybrid cloud usage, while the security management article focuses on risk treatment and management in healthcare organizations. The research explores the potential of cloud computing to improve healthcare data management, accessibility, and security, offering valuable insights into the future of healthcare technology.

Running head: A COMPUTING SOLUTION FOR DATA COLLECTION OF PATIENTS IN HEALTHCARE
A CLOUD COMPUTING SOLUTION FOR DATA COLLECTION OF PATIENTS IN
HEALTHCARE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Proposal:
The telemedicine allows monitoring and diagnoses of patients. It gives the guarantee
for safety, agility as well as reliability in the modern health care organisations. There are
various challenges that are associated with the automation in the sort of environment,
protocols as well as the programming interfaces. The proposal focuses on the virtual data
collection, processing and distribution of the patients. It can be suggested that the present
solutions are on the basis of the manual note, labour resource intensive as well as time
consuming. The solution that is proposed for automating the procedure from collection of
data to distribution of information as well as remote access by the medical staffs. The
solution is on the basis of the concept of utility computing and wireless sensor networks. The
primary sensors are attached to the medical equipment that are existed as well they are inter
connected to the exchange related services. The information is becoming available in cloud,
and it can be accessed from there by the expert based systems or it will be distributed to the
staffs that they will be able to do the analysis.
Synthesis Matrix:
Article Main Idea Main Idea 2 Main Idea 3
Cloud-Enabled
Wireless Body Area
Networks for
Pervasive Healthcare
The article designs
the WBANs that are
cloud enabled for
providing three
several different
types of the
scenarios such as
hospital, home and
For the architecture
that is proposed, the
authors have
stressed the aspects
that are most
important. The
inclusion of the
communication
From the research
prospective of the
cloud computing, the
authors have
considered specially
the aspects such as
semantic
interactions,

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outdoor environment
for the ambulatory
monitoring and
provide support to
the patients. The
authors have
proposed an
architecture and
system for the
pervasive system of
health care with the
MCC capability as
well as focus on the
WBAN architecture
that are cloud
enabled. The authors
have also discussed
many of the mobile
applications that are
including mobile
learning, mobile
commerce as well as
mobile gaming that
has been developed
for the MCC
standards that are for
the WBMNs. The
utilization of the
clouds that are
hybrid in that
platform as well as
the social networks
that are authorised
for the analysis of
the trends. One of
the major problems
that are existed in
the WBANs is the
consumption of low
power that gives rise
to some of the
constrains of the
standards and
protocols that are
available for the
communication that
is happening
between the nodes
that are existed in
the WBANs like
management and
optimization of the
medical resources,
huge medical data
storage and search of
medical related
information. The
major technologies
that are existed in
the semantic
analysis are
including ontology
technology, medical
knowledge bases,
semantic reasoning
etc. The MapReduce
technology as well
as the distributed file
system that is
represented by the
HDFS or Hadoop
distributed file
system that are
utilized in one of the
parallel methods of

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environments that
are diverse.
Bluetooth and
Zigbee, Zwave,
RFID etc.
reasoning that is on
the basis of cloud
computing.
Proposal for a
Security
Management in
Cloud Computing
for Health Care
The authors have
said that the health
care organisations
need to manage and
identify many of the
activities. The
authors have
discussed about the
information security
risk treatment
procedure that is
actually a procedure
for selecting and
implementing the
measures for male
necessary
modification of the
risk.
One more core
procedure that is
discussed by the
authors is the risk
management plan.
At the time of
managing the
information security
that is existed in the
health care related
organisation requires
to consider more
beside the major
processes of risk
treatment and risk
assessment.
As discussed by the
authors for all of the
important and
informative
incidents and basic
data need to be
logged as it needs to
ne passed on the
people that is
relevant so that the
people can take the
local action that is
necessary. For the
biomedical
researchers the
procedures are so
much important as
the work of them is
also including data
mining, analysis of
image, protein
folding.

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References:
Haufe, K., Dzombeta, S., & Brandis, K. (2014). Proposal for a security management in cloud
computing for health care. The Scientific World Journal, 2014.
Wan, J., Zou, C., Ullah, S., Lai, C. F., Zhou, M., & Wang, X. (2013). Cloud-enabled wireless
body area networks for pervasive healthcare. IEEE Network, 27(5), 56-61.