MedBook: A cloud-based healthcare billing and record management system

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 899-905

  Rodriguez Martinez, Manuel ^a   Valdivia, Harold ^a   Rivera, Jose ^a   Seguel, Jaime ^a   Greer, Melvin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud computing; healthcare IT; mobile apps

Indexed keywords

BILLING SYSTEMS; CLIENT APPLICATIONS; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; HEALTHCARE IT; MOBILE APPS; OPEN-SOURCE; OPEN-SOURCE TECHNOLOGY; RECORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; HEALTH CARE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866747310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2012.133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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