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Doctors, Patients, and Service Providers: A cloud-based approach for managing healthcare processes

Authors:
Ayman Moghnieh
Oriol Galimany
Joaquim Colas Colas
Alan Tapscott
Miguel Angel Carralero
Josep Blat

Keywords: Business Process Management, Cloud Computing

Abstract:
The ability of an eHealth system to empower and support doctors in undertaking healthcare processes and adapting them to the specific needs of their patients is key for its success. In this paper, we present a cloud-based approach for this type of eHealth systems, and consequently encourage their proliferation. First, we discuss a new healthcare business model that emancipates doctors from their reliance on technical assistance, and facilitates their cooperation with healthcare service providers. Then, we introduce a conceptual model of healthcare processes that allows doctors to understand, program, and upkeep them easily. We illustrate how both these components constitute a basis for cloud-based eHealth systems by discussing the development of a prototype implementation. Finally, we show how the prototype can be integrated in existing workflows by discussing a contextual analysis conducted to guide this integration. We conclude by discussing our results.

Pages: 85 to 91

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012