Healthcare Information Network Testbed through Content-Centric Network: A Prototype

Abstract

Healthcare and hospital are the most complex service systems. There are three often conflicting dimensions including: clinical data (patient record, medical data), operational, and Financial. Recently we worked on a data processing system for managing and exchanging patient records that are distributed in various hospitals under the medical cloud via the dedicated bandwidth network, namely, the dynamics circuit network (DCN). However, this approach needs the specific devices for supporting the dedicated resources. Currently, a new approach for network that enables the communication to happen by the means of content instead the location called the Content-Centric networking (CCN), which seems to be more beneficial as it reduces congestion and latency and supports emerging applications on mobile and wireless facilities. This paper is a proof of concept in designing a model of Medical network under the Information Centric Network, which is an ad-hoc, flexible, reliable, and simple to use under the Content-Centric concept. Advantages for the e-community as a result of this network will be discussed.