NDLI: A scoping review of cloud computing in healthcare

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Griebel, Lena Prokosch, Hans-Ulrich Köpcke, Felix Toddenroth, Dennis Christoph, Jan Leb, Ines Engel, Igor Sedlmayr, Martin
Abstract	Background Cloud computing is a recent and fast growing area of development in healthcare. Ubiquitous, on-demand access to virtually endless resources in combination with a pay-per-use model allow for new ways of developing, delivering and using services. Cloud computing is often used in an “OMICS-context”, e.g. for computing in genomics, proteomics and molecular medicine, while other field of application still seem to be underrepresented. Thus, the objective of this scoping review was to identify the current state and hot topics in research on cloud computing in healthcare beyond this traditional domain. Methods MEDLINE was searched in July 2013 and in December 2014 for publications containing the terms “cloud computing” and “cloud-based”. Each journal and conference article was categorized and summarized independently by two researchers who consolidated their findings. Results 102 publications have been analyzed and 6 main topics have been found: telemedicine/teleconsultation, medical imaging, public health and patient self-management, hospital management and information systems, therapy, and secondary use of data. Commonly used features are broad network access for sharing and accessing data and rapid elasticity to dynamically adapt to computing demands. Eight articles favor the pay-for-use characteristics of cloud-based services avoiding upfront investments. Nevertheless, while 22 articles present very general potentials of cloud computing in the medical domain and 66 articles describe conceptual or prototypic projects, only 14 articles report from successful implementations. Further, in many articles cloud computing is seen as an analogy to internet-/web-based data sharing and the characteristics of the particular cloud computing approach are unfortunately not really illustrated. Conclusions Even though cloud computing in healthcare is of growing interest only few successful implementations yet exist and many papers just use the term “cloud” synonymously for “using virtual machines” or “web-based” with no described benefit of the cloud paradigm. The biggest threat to the adoption in the healthcare domain is caused by involving external cloud partners: many issues of data safety and security are still to be solved. Until then, cloud computing is favored more for singular, individual features such as elasticity, pay-per-use and broad network access, rather than as cloud paradigm on its own.
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Page Count	16
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ISSN	14726947
DOI	10.1186/s12911-015-0145-7
Journal	BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	15
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2015-03-19
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Health Informatics Information Systems and Communication Service Management of Computing and Information Systems Cloud computing Internet E-health Medicine Healthcare
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Informatics Computer Science Applications Health Policy
Journal Impact Factor	3.3/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.9/2023

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
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