A scoping review of cloud computing in healthcare

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Griebel, Lena ^a   Prokosch, Hans Ulrich ^a   Köpcke, Felix ^a   Toddenroth, Dennis ^a   Christoph, Jan ^a   Leb, Ines ^a   Engel, Igor ^a   Sedlmayr, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; E health; Healthcare; Internet; Medicine

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN;

CLOUD COMPUTING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS;

EID: 84925445578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-015-0145-7     Document Type: Review

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