Plenary online I: Cloud computing for Healthcare & medical applications (online)

Cloud computing radically changes the way computer applications and services are constructed, delivered, and managed — particularly in Healthcare and various other medical applications. Large size of medical datasets and the data-intensive applications are performed more efficiently using cloud computing than with other forms of computing. Software services that can obtain seemingly infinite scalability and services level is now possible. Incremental growth to meet customers' varying demands is also possible. Several types of costing models, rapid provisioning and availability lead to more efficient resource utilization and reduced cost for utilization. Consequently, a good understanding of how cloud computing can be employed for medical applications is required for medical professionals, social scientists and business professionals. In this talk, I will provide cloud computing applications to several areas which include, but not limited to, medical information management, medical intelligence, value-adding thru' information extraction, medical and pharmaceutical intelligence and just-in-time management of health. Furthermore, I will allude to some examples of cloud computing to medial intelligence that possibly raises several yet-answered ethical and legal Issues. I will conclude with a list of grand challenges that cloud computing faces in the context of medical applications.