A health informatics transformation model based on intelligent cloud computing - exemplified by type 2 diabetes mellitus with related cardiovascular diseases.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Many studies regarding health analysis request structured datasets but the legacy resources provide scattered data. This study aims to establish a health informatics transformation model (HITM) based upon intelligent cloud computing with the self-developed analytics modules by open source technique. The model was exemplified by the open data of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) with related cardiovascular diseases.

Authors

  • Hsueh-Chun Lin
    Department of Health Risk Management, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh-Shi Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan. snowlin@mail.cmu.edu.tw.
  • Yu-Chen Kuo
    Department of Automatic Control Engineering, Feng Chia University (FCU), No. 100, Wenhwa Road, Seatwen, Taichung 40724, Taiwan. m0429322@fcu.edu.tw.
  • Meng-Yu Liu
    Department of Health Services Administration, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan, ROC.