A study on cloud computing architectures for smart healthcare services

Abstract

Cloud computing in healthcare services is gaining a wide interest across the world due to its affordable cost and enormous data storage capabilities. Smart healthcare is also another growing area of interest to researchers and governments due to the increasing development of new smart cities. However, there is no current standard practice to format the cloud computing infrastructure. In order to assist the smart healthcare system architect in designing a comprehensive solution for the basic services that are required by the healthcare users. Architects need to take into consideration a balanced approach towards their specific functional and non-functional needs such as openness, scalability, concurrency, interoperability and security factors. The integration of smart healthcare services based on cloud computing architecture is considered a new field of interest and research. The main objective of this paper is to provide a brief analysis of the cloud computing architectures in healthcare services.