CLOUD FOR HEALTH

• Introduction

Cloud Computing in Healthcare

Health Care Might Be Ripe for Cloud Computing

Health Informatics Forum –Cloud

Cloud Computing Brightens Healthcare’s Dark Skies

• Google App Engine & Health

Applications

AGENDA

While consumers increasingly go online for health info!

CLOUD COMPUTING IN HEALTHCARE

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Few Manage their health record that way!

RECORD MANAGEMENT

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Web BasedDesktop AppSpecific App

• There is not any better way to achieve high levels of interoperability quickly than by using clouds

• The idea of putting everything online with tools already available makes a lot of sense.

• The fact that a lot of health care has not already moved into second and third generation IT solutions could definitely pave the way for cloud computing solutions.

• Proponents say the two greatest advantages of a cloud approach to electronic health records are low cost and ease of use..

HEALTH CARE MIGHT BE RIPE FOR CLOUD

COMPUTING

• Comparison between the Cloud and using Desktop applications.

• A private cloud could be useful for storing identified patient data behind an organization's firewall . However it is a poor choice if we store identified patient data that it is accessible by parties outside an organization's the firewall.

HEALTH INFORMATICS FORUM --CLOUD

•It seems inevitable that hospital EMRs, and other information systems will eventually run on rented servers rather than on hardware owned and managed by the hospitals themselves.

•The hospital executives would never be able to tolerate using ‘computing cloud’ because of the perception that healthcare computing is different than corporate computing or e-commerce.

•It is predicted that Specialized companies, or even subdivisions of existing companies like Amazon or Google, will have ‘healthcare’ in their names and will serve only the healthcare industry. In this way, they will be able offer an array of services specifically tailored to the needs of their healthcare clients.”

CLOUD COMPUTING BRIGHTENS HEALTHCARE’S DARK SKIES

• Google Health

https://health.google.com/health/p/?pli=1

• ScutMonkey, MD

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• Food Prints App on APP engine

http://appgallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=agphcHBnYWxsZXJ5chQLEgxBcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMY_owC

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• FROI First report of injury

http://froi.appspot.com/

GOOGLE APP ENGINE APPLICATIONS

• Google Health is a personal health information centralization service (sometimes known as personal health record services) by Google. The service allows Google users to store their health records into the Google Health system, thereby merging potentially separate health records into one centralized Google Health profile.

• Volunteered information can include "health conditions, medications, allergies, and lab results"

GOOGLE HEALTH

Tired of keeping your patient list in Microsoft Excel? Tired of someone forgetting to close the excel list and locking the whole team out? Want a patient list that automatically takes care of vitals and labs...and flags abnormal values?

SCUTMONKEY, MD

This app allows you to search and browse nutrition facts from food labels. Users can change serving size and view images generated by Google search. The back-end is powered by Google App Engine. The front-end is using Yahoo! User Interface Library, Google AJAX Search and Adobe Flex.

FOOD PRINTS

This is a user-friendly way to collect the complicated reporting information required by state law after a workplace injury.

FROI FIRST REPORT OF INJURY

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