Service Science, Management, and Engineering:

Chapter 13

Cloud of Health for Connected Patients

Timo Nyberg*, Gang Xiong^† and Jani Luostarinen^‡

^*School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

^†Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

^‡Mobile Health Services, International Health Promotion Association (IHPA), Helsinki, Finland

13.1 Introduction

Cloud of Health is an important part of today’s information systems, and is mainly introduced in this context. The Cloud of Health is understood broadly; physically, it is an extended information system including many types of data transfer from hard-wired broadband network resources to wireless and mobile connection destinations, and including different types of information, information processing, information sources, ...