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Cloud Based Spatial Analysis for the Health Sector:A Case Study of Egypt


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1 Department of Information Systems, Canadian International College, Cairo, Egypt
2 Department of Information Systems, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
3 Department of GIS, Ministry of Health and population, Cairo, Egypt
 

As it is one of the most important and sensitive sectors, decisions related to the health sector are always critical. So it must be built on accurate information in order to weight the positives and negatives of each option and consider all the alternatives to determine which option is the best for that particular situation. The health sector ultimately faces basic challenges of operations, logistics, resource allocation, customers, and management. As it’s true that information can help overcome the hurdles, this paper raises the relation between the spatial analyses based on Cloud Computing and the health sector improvement. It presents the vital role of the spatial analysis and the health geography in improving the health sector services. In addition, it presents the significance of the Cloud based GIS. Finally, it presents the usage of the Cloud based GIS for the hospitals distribution in Egypt as a case study.

Keywords

Spatial Analysis, Cloud GIS, Healthcare, Cloud Spatial Analysis.
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Authors

Abdelrahman M. Helmi
Department of Information Systems, Canadian International College, Cairo, Egypt
Mona M. Nasr
Department of Information Systems, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
Randa A. Mohamed
Department of GIS, Ministry of Health and population, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract


As it is one of the most important and sensitive sectors, decisions related to the health sector are always critical. So it must be built on accurate information in order to weight the positives and negatives of each option and consider all the alternatives to determine which option is the best for that particular situation. The health sector ultimately faces basic challenges of operations, logistics, resource allocation, customers, and management. As it’s true that information can help overcome the hurdles, this paper raises the relation between the spatial analyses based on Cloud Computing and the health sector improvement. It presents the vital role of the spatial analysis and the health geography in improving the health sector services. In addition, it presents the significance of the Cloud based GIS. Finally, it presents the usage of the Cloud based GIS for the hospitals distribution in Egypt as a case study.

Keywords


Spatial Analysis, Cloud GIS, Healthcare, Cloud Spatial Analysis.

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