title: Mobile healthcare information management utilizing Cloud Computing and Android OS.
abstract: Cloud Computing provides functionality for managing information data in a distributed, ubiquitous and pervasive manner supporting several platforms, systems and applications. This work presents the implementation of a mobile system that enables electronic healthcare data storage, update and retrieval using Cloud Computing. The mobile application is developed using Google's Android operating system and provides management of patient health records and medical images (supporting DICOM format and JPEG2000 coding). The developed system has been evaluated using the Amazon's S3 cloud service. This article summarizes the implementation details and presents initial results of the system in practice.
authors.affiliation: University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece. doukas@agean.gr
authors.forename: Charalampos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Doukas
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pliakas
authors.forename: Ilias
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maglogiannis
mesh_terms: D040421:Cell Phone; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006115:Greece; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D011381:Programming Languages; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface