HelpCloud: Hierarchy Health Evaluation for Private Cloud

Storing and Using Health Data in a Virtual Private Cloud

Electronic health records are being adopted at a rapid rate due to increased funding from the US federal government. Health data provide the opportunity to identify possible improvements in health care delivery by applying data mining and statistical methods to the data and will also enable a wide variety of new applications that will be meaningful to patients and medical professionals. Researc...

Public-private partnerships for health require thoughtful evaluation.

There are now about 50 public–private partnerships operating internationally to provide the means of combating diseases associated with poverty. Their aim is to develop, or improve access to, health products such as drugs, vaccines, contraceptives, microbicides, diagnostics and bednets. Since getting under way during the last few years, they have been variously criticized but usually with no di...

Private Virtual Infrastructure for Cloud Computing

Cloud computing places an organization’s sensitive data in the control of a third party, introducing a significant level of risk on the privacy and security of the data. We propose a new management and security model for cloud computing called the Private Virtual Infrastructure (PVI) that shares the responsibility of security in cloud computing between the service provider and client, decreasin...

Distributed Virtual Private Disk for Cloud Computing

In recent years a new technological paradigm has emerged in the computer science research community. This paradigm is referred to as Cloud Computing, a new computing paradigm whose aims are to allow users to utilize computing infrastructure over the network, supplied as an on-demand service. There are already many commercial solutions based on this approach, as well as many academic research pr...

Guidelines for Building a Private Cloud Infrastructure