The sharing of medical information resources (electronic health data and corresponding processing applications) is a key factor playing an important role towards the successful adoption of pervasive or mobile healthcare systems. The concept of Cloud Computing and applications similar to the one presented in this article will attract the interest of scientists, developers and industrial partners working in the field of biomedical informatics. This paper has presented @HealthCloud: a prototype implementation of a mobile healthcare information management system based on Cloud Computing and Android OS. The system enables the management of patient health records and medical images (supporting DICOM format and JPEG2000 coding) and utilizes the Amazon’s S3 Cloud Storage Service.
Future work might include improving security by implementing advanced user authentication techniques on the mobile device (e.g, through voice recognition) and deploying the platform in real healthcare environment for evaluating the system in terms of user acceptability and performance.