An Ecosystem Approach for Healthcare Services Cloud

Abstract

Patient-centric healthcare and evidence-based medicine with the emphasis on prevention and wellness promise to deliver better and more affordable healthcare. At minimal, they require health related information to be shared among a community including patients, providers, payers, and regulators. It is important for IT systems to facilitate information sharing within such communities. Furthermore, we argue that it is highly valuable to develop IT technologies that can foster sustainable healthcare ecosystems for collaborative, coordinated healthcare delivery.The emerging cloud computing appears well-suited to meet the demand of a broad set of health service scenarios. In particular, the concept of shared infrastructure and services provides the foundation for supporting healthcare service ecosystems. This paper proposes an ecosystem approach to identify high-level requirements for cloud computing technologies to provide hosting environments for sustainable healthcare ecosystems. We draw the lessons and principles from the sustainable ecological ecosystems, review some of the existing IT-enabled healthcare ecosystems, and provide our view on the imperatives for cloud computing research to support future healthcare IT needs.

Understanding the determinants of Cloud Computing adoption in Saudi healthcare organisations

“…The absence of implementation strategy has negatively affected e-health projects in Saudi Arabia [52]. It has been argued that the use of Cloud Computing will help the hospitals to move from the traditional healthcare model (doctor-centred model) to the new healthcare model (patient-centred model) by facilitating the sharing and access of patients' medical data and increasing patients' engagements [53].…”

Next Generation Wellness: A Technology Model for Personalizing Healthcare

“…A service platform business ecosystem can allow health service providers in partnership to provide personalized services based on the shared knowledge of patients' current status and the level of their individual needs [ 14 ]. This will help providers tailor patients' personal intervention plans accordingly in the context of their service provisioning.…”

Enabling location-based policies in a healthcare cloud computing environment

“…With respect to healthcare cloud computing ecosystems, [16] mention the works by [18], [19], [20], [21], [22] as being related. The analysis of the literature shows enabling data access permissions across different cloud services and LBAC policies in some healthcare cloud computing ecosystem has been out of the scope so far.…”