CLOUD COMPUTING BASED HETEROGENEOUS PATIENT MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM USING WEB SERVICE CLIENTS SERVING AS AGENTS

Abstract

Cloud computing based Heterogeneous Patient Medical Information System that will allow various 
authorized users to securely access patient records from various Care Delivery Organizations (CDOs) such as 
hospitals, urgent care centers, doctors, laboratories, imaging centers among others, from any location. Such a 
system must seamlessly integrate all patient records including images such as CT-SCANS and MRI’S which can 
easily be accessed from any location and reviewed by any authorized user. In such a scenario the storage and 
transmission of medical records will have be conducted in a totally secure and safe environment with a very 
high standard of data integrity, protecting patient privacy and complying with all Health Insurance Portability 
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. 
The sharing of medical records, specifically radiology imaging databases with CDOs   will have potential to 
drastically reduce medical redundancies, exposure to radiations, costs to patients. It is essential to use the 
cloud computing in this application since it would allow the CDOs to address the challenge of sharing medical 
data that is overly complex and highly expensive to address with traditional technologies. In addition to 
providing community of care, proposed system can also serve as a valuable tool in clinical research, medical 
decision-making, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, and in formulating public health policy.