American Journal of Computational Mathematics, 2012, 2, 240-243

http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajcm.2012.23032 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ajcm)

Efficient Use of Cloud Computing in

Medical Science
Avula Tejaswi, Nela Manoj Kumar, Gudapati Radhika, Sreenivas Velagapudi
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, K L University, Guntur, India
Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Received April 23, 2012; revised July 8, 2012; accepted July 16, 2012

ABSTRACT
Technology has grown rapidly with scientific advancement over the world in recent decades. Therefore, there is a need
to redesign the medical system to meet their better needs .With the advent of cloud computing the doctors can keep their
information about their critical diseases, critical cases and sophisticated problem they phased .cloud computing has
made it possible to solve many complex problems very fast and at a lower cost in less time. Almost all doctors in vari-
ous disciplines uses cloud computing to solve their problems. In this paper, attention is given to possible implementa-
tion of Cloud computing technology in the medical field, especially in hospitals where there is intensive need of com-
puters for better cure for the diseases.

Keywords: Cloud; Diseases; Treatment; Medical; Information; Internet

1. Introduction do not require any special knowledge about the concept

of Cloud computing to connect their computers to the
Computers play a prominent role in the educational sec-
server where applications have been installed and use
tor, as well as in business and industry sectors. They can
them. Users can communicate through Internet with re-
also play major role in medical field. With availability of
mote servers. These servers can exchange their comput-
high-end information rarely matches with doctor need in
ing slots themselves. Cloud computing is one of the new
a typical solution. In medical field a doctor can keep in-
technologies [3] likely to have a significant impact on the
formation on cloud to share among the world. A doctor
teaching and learning environment.
can find a new complex disease in a patient; he/she will
get the symptoms of the diseases, how to cure the disease
and all the information about the disease. The doctor can
3. Types of Cloud Services
place the information on the cloud. If the same disease In cloud technology the information is shared from cli-
came to another patient in world that doctor can get in- ents to the organization through the virtual data centers.
formation about the disease and doctor can cure the dis- This virtual data centers has all the required information
ease for the patient. With the help of cloud computing the (Figure 1). The cloud technology model includes [1]:
doctor in different countries can get information about 1) SaaS (Software as a service);
complex diseases. The information in cloud will be en- 2) PaaS (Platform as a service);
crypted [1] for the security purpose. 3) IaaS (Infrastructure as a service).

2. Cloud Computing
Cloud technology [2] provides computation, software, data
access, and storage services that do not require end-user
knowledge of the physical location and configuration of
the system that delivers the services. Cloud technology
providers deliver applications via the internet, which are
accessed from a web browser, while the business soft-
ware and data are stored on servers at a remote location.
Cloud computing is highly scalable and creates virtual-
ized resources that can be made available to users. Users Figure 1. Services of cloud.

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3.1. SaaS (Software as a Service)

Saas (Figure 1) is simply the cloud vender providing the
given piece of software you want to use on their servers.
It is a way of delivering applications over the Internet-as
a service. Instead of installing and maintaining software,
you simply access it via the Internet, freeing yourself from
complex software and hardware management. SaaS [4] ap-
plications are sometimes called Web-based software, on-
demand software, or hosted software. Whatever the name,
SaaS applications run on a SaaS provider’s servers.

3.2. PaaS (Platform as a Service)

To follows the heels of SaaS, platform as a service (PaaS)
[2] is another application delivery model. PaaS supplies Figure 2. Types of cloud computing.
all the resources required to build applications and ser-
vices completely from the internet without having to 4.2. Private Cloud
download or install software. PaaS services include ap- Private cloud (Figure 2) (also called internal cloud or
plication design development, testing, deployment, and corporative cloud) is used in within the organization or
hosting. It provides infrastructure on which software de- corporation. It provides hosted services to very limited
velopers can build new applications or extend existing number of people behind a firewall. Advances in virtual-
ones without the cost and complexity of buying and ization and distributed computing have allowed corporate
managing the underlying hardware and software and pro- network and datacenter administrators to effectively be-
visioning hosting capabilities. PaaS generally offers some come service providers that meet the needs for their “cus-
support to help the creation of user interfaces, and is tomers” within the corporation.
normally based on HTML or JavaScript.
4.3. Hybrid Cloud
3.3. IaaS (Interface as a Service)
It is a cloud computing environment in which an organi-
This offers remote delivery of an entire computer infra- zation provides and manages some resources in-house
structure. Managed hosting and development environ- and has others provided externally. For example an or-
ments are the services included in IaaS (Figure 1). The ganization might use a public cloud service, such as
user can buy the infrastructure according to the require- Amazon’s Elastic Cloud (EC2) for general computing
ments at any particular point of time instead of buying but store customer data within its own data center. Al-
the infrastructure that might not be used for months. IaaS though cloud computing is often said to be the future of
operates on a “Pay as you go” model ensuring that the the industry, the hybrid cloud (Figure 2) model is more
users pay for only what they are using. prevalent for a number of reasons. Large enterprises of-
ten already have substantial investments in the infra-
4. Types of Cloud Computing structure required to provide resources in-house. Fur-
thermore, many organizations would prefer to keep sen-
4.1. Public Cloud sitive data under their own control to ensure security [1].
Public cloud (Figure 2) or external cloud describes cloud
computing in the traditional mainstream sense, where by 5. Methodology
resources are dynamically provisioned on a fine-grained, Now a day’s the people in the world are sick with so
self-service basis over the internet via web applica- many health problems and there are some problems
tions/web services, from an off-site third-party provider which are unknown to the doctors also so in that situa-
who shares resources and bills on a fine-grained utility tions the doctors need to know how to treat that patients,
computing basis. A public cloud is one based on the to overcome this type of problems we suggested a new
standard cloud computing model, in which a service pro- era of technology called cloud computing in medical
vider makes resources, such as applications and storage, sciences. Here the doctors has to prepare some document
available to the general public over the Internet. Public whenever he got any critical cases which he has ever
cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage seen and treated in that situation he has to make it a
model. document that is how to treat that patient. There are some

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points that a doctor need to mention while documenting whether is there any changes in his body or health. Men-
regarding a problem they are tion which type of treatment he has given to the patient.
1) Symptoms; Guide the patient, the doctor has to mention all the above
2) Analysis; while treating the patient.
3) Treatment.
6. Implementation
5.1. Symptoms 6.1. Existing System
Here if the doctor found any disease that he has ever seen
In the Existing system the doctors didn’t use any cloud to
then, at first he has to mention the symptoms of that dis-
inform about new diseases in patients so it is very diffi-
ease and make a note of it to inform other doctors, if any
cult to cure and they don’t know how to save people in
doctor faces the same disease cases. It is possible only if
the world from that disease because, if the disease found
the other doctor is friend to him or he is a doctor in an-
in china then the doctor in India may not know about that
other hospital in the same city/region.
and they have to know only through media even though
many people were died of that disease so the death rate is
5.2. Analysis increasing enormously.
After verifying all symptoms of the patient the doctor con-
clude that what type of disease it is and how it came and 6.2. Proposed System
is it cures for normal treatment or he has to take a special
treatment for that disease all these concerns are analyzed. Here in this proposed system we are going to introduce
cloud computing in medical sciences because it is very
easiest way to know all the doctors over the world through
5.3. Treatment
the cloud about the diseases which are very recently
After analyzing all the things regarding the disease the found and how to cure it, by applying this we can reduce
doctor will start the treatment, here in this phase doctor death rate. By Sharing the information on cloud the
will give medicines to the patient and he has to mention reputation of hospital and doctor will increase globally.
what the medicines are given to the patient and the dos- The doctors will give treatment for all the diseases
age of it. There are some points that the doctor has to regularly in general but there are some cases which are
follow while treating the patient they are. Mention the very difficult cure in such cases the doctor willing to cure
medicines and dosage which are given to the patient. that as soon as possible and at last he will cure it, in the
Observe the patient while the treatment is going on same way if any doctor faces the same problem in the

Figure 3. Deploying medical information to the cloud and retrieving information from cloud.

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patient then it is very easy to inform to that doctor about tients, if any new disease is occurred. Here, we utilize the
the disease and how to cure it if the second doctor is existing enhancement of cloud security protocols for au-
friend of another doctor or both the doctors are in the thenticating the treatment information. By using cloud
same city, if the same problem is arises in another coun- computing will reduce the time required for patient to
try then it is very difficult to inform that doctor about the become into normal stage. Cloud computing will create a
treatment and how to cure it. major impact on medicine, and contribute to an overall
So we are implementing this cloud (Figure 3) in improvement in its quality. To conclude that if the en-
medical sciences, here every doctor who is facing rare crypted treatment information of the patients is uploaded
cases need to prepare a document about symptoms, to the cloud, only authenticated receivers (doctors) can
analysis of the disease and how to cure it and what are decrypt it there by we can enhance the security to the
the medicines he has given to cure it, all these informa- information.
tion will documented by the doctor and he has to keep it
in the cloud.
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