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 includingmedicine. The use of modern technology in medicine reduces the incidence ofserious medical errors; some diseases need to follow their symptoms for a longtime to be discovered. There is a problem in tracking symptoms for patients ateach time visiting the hospital where data cannot be saved and retrieved whenneeded. By using the cloud computing technology, all hospitals can be linkedby the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, which enables doctors to followthe 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 withthis program should be imposed on all governmental and private hospitals.The program allows receptionists to create a special file for each patient bysaving the basic information in a database and using national number asprimary key. The doctor enters the symptoms, requests the tests and thenthe laboratory is responsible for adding tests results to the system, which thenare sent to the doctor who will then decide the appropriate treatment. If thepatient has other symptoms and visits another hospital, the new doctor canretrieve the patient’s previous data. The achieved result of this program isthat it facilitates the process of saving and retrieving patients’ history fromevery hospital which leads to early detection and treatment of diseases beforebeing serious, by this we reduce mortality due to error diagnosis.