E-Health cloud for Nigerian Teaching Hospitals

Abstract

major challenge to the adaptation of e-Health solution in developing countries is the lack of infrastructure for massive data storage and availability of resources on demand. With well over 150 million people to care for, the health sector in Nigeria lacks an organized and interoperable data storage facility to hold large volumes of data that results from unprecedented visits of patients to hospitals on a daily basis. This has further worsened the ineffective and cumbersomeness of treatment processes due to inconsistence in data representations. This paper tends to address this issue by proposing a Cloud computing infrastructure for e-Health solutions in Nigeria. This will help to effectively and efficiently manage healthcare resources and data and also make healthcare services available across the existing teaching hospitals in the country.