DICOM Medical Image Management the challenges and solutions: Cloud as a Service (CaaS)

Abstract

In Healthcare IT-driven revolution the organizations are investing in the latest information technologies with the clear goals of reducing operating costs and improving healthcare outcomes. Cloud computing is emerging as a new trend in computational and storage resource allocation and provisioning technology. The motivation of study is providing DICOM images management on Cloud Computing technology for authorized physicians, healthcare facilities and on demand access to patient's medical images from RIS or PACS. The proposed work is discussed to meet the challenges for DICOM Image Management and the offered cloud service model “Cloud as a Service (CaaS)” for Medical Imaging applications on cloud computing systems. The conceptual design is discussed, how to manage medical imaging solution on cloud, though to provide secure service, anytime & anywhere access to medical images and instant retrieval of digital images data of any modality with a cloud-based image storage and management service using standard DICOM protocol. This paper summarizes the framework model on medical imaging solid foundation with platforms and softwares to power the cloud infrastructure for DICOM Image Management, build and run robust cloud applications, and supply end-user computing as a cloud-based service.