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Towards an e-Health Cloud Solution for Remote Regions at Bahia-Brazil

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This paper presents CloudMedic, an e-Health Cloud solution that manages health care services in remote regions of Bahia-Brazil. For that, six main modules: Clinic, Hospital, Supply, Administrative, Billing and Health Business Intelligence, were developed to control the health flow among health actors at health institutions. They provided database model and procedures for health business rules, a standard gateway for data maintenance between web views and database layer, and a multi-front-end framework based on web views and web commands configurations. These resources were used by 2042 health actors in 261 health posts covering health demands from 118 municipalities at Bahia state. They also managed approximately 2.4 million health service ‘orders and approximately 13.5 million health exams for more than 1.3 million registered patients. As a result, a collection of health functionalities available in a cloud infrastructure was successfully developed, deployed and validated in more than 28% of Bahia municipalities. A viable e-Health Cloud solution that, despite municipality limitations in remote regions, decentralized and improved the access to health care services at Bahia state.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge CMR and VitaLab for computational and financial support during the stages of this work, and FAPESB (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia) for financial support to this project.

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This work was supported by the Brazilian health care software company Kamikan.

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  1. Departmento de Exatas – Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil

    V. T. Sarinho

  2. Kamikan Processamento de Dados, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil

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Authors A. O. Mota and E. P. Silva have received research grants from Company Kamikan. Author V. T. Sarinho declares that he has no conflict of interest in any product or concept discussed in this article.

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Sarinho, V.T., Mota, A.O. & Silva, E.P. Towards an e-Health Cloud Solution for Remote Regions at Bahia-Brazil. J Med Syst 42, 23 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-017-0869-2

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