Opportunities and challenges of cloud computing to improve health care services

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kuo, Alex Mu Hsing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cloud computing; Electronic health record; Health care; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 80053504222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1867     Document Type: Review

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