Healthcare application development in mobile and cloud environments

Abstract

The development of mobile healthcare application in pervasive devices has faced several challenges; common people can get benefited when healthcare services are developed in Android operating system. The development of mobile healthcare application on cloud computing environment deploys the data retrieval, availability of resources, security, and privacy. The aim of the proposed mobile healthcare application is to manage the healthcare information system among the various aspects. The healthcare application interacts with the cloud environment that facilitates to access the pool of resources and infrastructure on demand over the network. The interaction of cloud and healthcare application has been implemented using Amazon’s S3 cloud service. The security of the system has maintained the concept of bring your own device (BYOD); we named the mobile health application as HealthKit, and it has been implemented in Android OS. The end of the HealthKit application is organized to manage the patient’s health records; it provides the related healthcare information to physicians and nurses. The medical images are generated by the protocol digital imaging and communication medicine (DICOM) format; it was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee (JPEG 2000) coding. The end of proposed HealthKit application has been tested and analyzed with the different network types.