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Challenges of Operationalizing PACS on Cloud Over Wireless Networks

Authors:
Ricardo Ferraro de Souza
Carlos Becker Westphal
Daniel Ricardo dos Santos
Carla Merke Westphall

Keywords: Cloud Computing; PACS; Healthcare Systems; Wireless Networks.

Abstract:
Clinics and hospitals are acquiring more technological resources to help providing a faster and more precise diagnostic, with the goal of making it more dynamic and effective. This is pushing health institutions to search for more modern equipment, with greater technological features. Besides last generation equipment, another problem faced by these institutions is enabling the connection of physicians to a Picture Archive and Communication Systems (PACS) from anywhere. With the use of communication resources increasingly present in everyday life, like Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi), third generation of mobile telecommunications technology (3G), fourth generation of mobile telecommunications technology (4G), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) and other wireless networks that allow the connection of mobile devices, it becomes easier and cheaper to provide quality medical services at a distance. Diagnoses that needed a doctor to be present, for instance, can now be performed from anywhere, provided there is an Internet connection. Cloud-based PACS is shown to be efficient for archiving medical images, allowing access to exams and reports from anywhere, over wireless networks, regardless of the platform used for access.

Pages: 265 to 270

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-284-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 26, 2013