Storage and Retrieval of Medical Images using Cloud Computing

摘要

Every year health care organizations craft petabytes of data in terms of patient records, medical images and lab results. The dispute for healthcare facilities is maintaining medical images for enduring access while shielding them in a way that meets Health Information portability and accountability ACT requirements for privacy and disaster recovery. This act needs providers to stock up the data for years and decades. The main focus of the health care organization is about the expenditure of an onsite medical image database. Scalability and safeguarding are the most important concern for the domestic network and health care providers while storing huge amount of medical images. Cloud computing is one of the most inspiring technologies because of its cost effectiveness, elasticity, accessibility and scalability which can be an expected way out for the troubles one faced for stock up the images. Microsoft Windows Azure is one of the platforms in cloud computing used to store flexible images. To hold the client queries, Azure includes a server called Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Server Windows Azure will supply this sort of service oriented applications.