CLOUD BASED HIMS - An Indian Perspective

Sourav Saha, Ambuj Mahanti

2012

Abstract

The advent of Cloud Computing has opened up newer avenues for business. Traditional industry verticals like the healthcare are yet to reap the benefits of such cutting-edge technology in India. In an age of collaboration over virtual medium, the lack of coordination and an effective communication mechanism is creating information “silos” that are not propagated at other levels. In this paper we briefly discuss the state of Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) in India, the challenges faced en-route deployment of the solution. We then introduce some interesting aspects of cloud computing to show that how a cloud-based system can help reduce the technical barriers to HIMS acceptance and endorsement. Our contribution lies in addressing issues for HIMS deployment in an Indian scenario and arguing for a cutting-edge technology like Cloud Computing as an agent of change.

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in Harvard Style

Saha S. and Mahanti A. (2012). CLOUD BASED HIMS - An Indian Perspective . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-05-1, pages 438-442. DOI: 10.5220/0003961504380442


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer12,
author={Sourav Saha and Ambuj Mahanti},
title={CLOUD BASED HIMS - An Indian Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2012},
pages={438-442},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003961504380442},
isbn={978-989-8565-05-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - CLOUD BASED HIMS - An Indian Perspective
SN - 978-989-8565-05-1
AU - Saha S.
AU - Mahanti A.
PY - 2012
SP - 438
EP - 442
DO - 10.5220/0003961504380442