Cloud computing in healthcare and biomedicine

Scalable Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Calabrese, Barbara ^a   Cannataro, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biomedicine; Cloud computing; Healthcare; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CLOUD COMPUTING; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA PRIVACY; HEALTH CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOBILE SECURITY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

BIOMEDICINE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MODELS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; SECURE DATA STORAGE; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84923879227     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12694/scpe.v16i1.1057     Document Type: Article

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