Title
A Seeded Cloud Approach to Health Cyberinfrastructure: Preliminary Architecture Design and Case Applications
Abstract
Applications in public health and health services require access to a range of heterogeneous data, from environmental information in a region, to population-level data across regions, to more closely held personal health information, and, from reference scientific datasets to observational data and sensor streams. The cyber infrastructure support for such applications must include the ability to access a variety of contextual and background information, along with the tools for integration, analysis, and mining across such datasets. The expected volume of information and users -- including many with only basic skills in data handling and analysis of such systems -- also demands an elastic solution. This paper introduces the "seeded cloud" concept where the on-demand cloud environment includes defined, prepared, and tool-rich datasets, reducing the barrier to application development in this multidisciplinary domain of public health and health services. The seeded cloud architecture is presented and illustrated through two case applications. The implications for discovery-based research as well as practice are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/HICSS.2012.82
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud computing,data analysis,health care,medical information systems,architecture design,data analysis,data handling,environmental information,health cyberinfrastructure,health services,heterogeneous data,on-demand cloud environment,personal health information,population-level data,public health,seeded cloud approach,cloud computing,cyberinfrastructure,health services,public health
Health care,Public health,Data science,Basic skills,Data visualization,World Wide Web,Multidisciplinary approach,Computer science,Knowledge management,Cyberinfrastructure,Group method of data handling,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chaitan Baru110220.59
Nathan Botts2223.03
Thomas Horan350.78
Kevin Patrick4849.11
Sue S. Feldman5365.61