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Cloud computing has played a significant role in improving the management and control of information access. Healthcare institutions employ cloud computing to manage not only the data of patients but also the practitioner referencing platforms. Contemporarily, management of information systems has a challenging history with regard to loss of the practitioner and patient confidentiality following successful hacks from targeted online malware. In this regard, health informatics has been recognized within the healthcare sector as a service with three significant applications and benefits. Firstly, as a service, health informatics that use cloud computing have a general insurance of their service use. Secondly, with cloud access to information can be cross-referenced from one practitioner or institution to another. Thirdly, as an innovation in information access, cloud computing sustains the service integration of multiple practitioners allowing for better patient outcomes. Cloud computing in healthcare informatics guarantees better healthcare services such as provision of on-demand patient records. Therefore, in this work a detailed insight into the importance and implementation of healthcare informatics and the adaptation levels of healthcare informatics in cloud computing over time is herein reviewed to determine its applicability and relevance today as well as in the future.
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MEDITECH: A software vendor that offers healthcare informatics applications.
Azure: Microsoft’s cloud technology.
Amazon Web Service (AWS): Amazon’s cloud technology.
Oracle 12c: Oracle’s cloud technology.
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Rekha, P.M., Dakshayini, M. (2020). Health Informatics as a Service. In: Al-Turjman, F. (eds) Trends in Cloud-based IoT. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40037-8_10
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