E-Health Grid Network Topology Based on Referral Hospital Clustering in Indonesia

Abstract

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made a great change in human life including in health care area. Professional workers in the field of health services are required to improve productivity, accuracy, efficiency and service. The use of ICT for health purposes is known as e-Health. Grid Technology can be used in the development of e-Health for resource sharing and interoperability. Grid can process a very large data for parallel computation. Grid can be used to facilitate health practitioners and researchers in the field of health to find a new virus, discovery a new drugs, disease, images of organs and to determine the actions for a patient. This paper is the result of health policy study in Indonesia and simulation of network topology based on referral hospital clustering in the country that aims to model e-Health Grid in Indonesia.