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An emergency department at a hospital aims to install special sensors in waiting room chairs to gather some preliminary data to help doctors and nurses with assessing case priority in situations where hospital services are limited. Data is securely sent from these devices embedded in each chair to a central private server. Health data gathered from these devices will be stored in the cloud.
(a).
Define the term ubiquitous computing.
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(b).
The hospital is considering moving patient data from a local on site server to the cloud. Discuss the use of private and public clouds for storing the health data.
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(c).
State the name of a current protocol for mobile and wireless communication.
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(d).
Explain the importance of the use of protocols and standards with respect to systems which process and store healthcare information.
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