Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Biomedical Engineering
Date Submitted: Feb 5, 2020
Date Accepted: Jun 13, 2020
Video Cloud Services for Hospitals: Designing an end-to-end platform for medical video storage and secure access.
ABSTRACT
The amount of medical video data, that has to be securely stored, grows exponentially. This is caused by the introduction of higher video resolution, like 4k and 8k, to medical devices, the growing usage of telemedicine services and also a general trend towards increasing transparency when it comes to medical treatment, resulting in more and more medical procedures being recorded. This video data, being medical data, must be maintained for many years, resulting in Exabytes that each hospital must store in the future. Hospitals do not have the required ICT infrastructure to handle such amount of data on the long run. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and possible solutions to this problem. We propose a generic architecture for a holistic, end-to-end recording and storage platform for hospitals, define crucial components and identify existing and future solutions, to address all parts of the system. The paper focuses mostly on the recording part of the system, as it introduces the most challenges in the area of bioinformatics, in particular on three major areas: video encoding, video quality, and video metadata.
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