Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Software Implementation as a Service for Sudanese Health Organizations

Abstract

The development of technology has a good impact on all sciences including

medicine. The use of modern technology in medicine reduces the incidence of

serious medical errors; some diseases need to follow their symptoms for a long

time to be discovered. There is a problem in tracking symptoms for patients at

each time visiting the hospital where data cannot be saved and retrieved when

needed. By using the cloud computing technology, all hospitals can be linked

by the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, which enables doctors to follow

the patient’s health throughout his life if he visits any hospital at any time.

The program must be managed by the Ministry of Health, and working with

this program should be imposed on all governmental and private hospitals.

The program allows receptionists to create a special file for each patient by

saving the basic information in a database and using national number as

primary key. The doctor enters the symptoms, requests the tests and then

the laboratory is responsible for adding tests results to the system, which then

are sent to the doctor who will then decide the appropriate treatment. If the

patient has other symptoms and visits another hospital, the new doctor can

retrieve the patient’s previous data. The achieved result of this program is

that it facilitates the process of saving and retrieving patients’ history from

every hospital which leads to early detection and treatment of diseases before

being serious, by this we reduce mortality due to error diagnosis.