CCmH: The cloud computing paradigm for mobile health (mHealth)

Cloud computing is a complex infrastructure revolved around (mobile and non-mobile) computing, database and storage capacity, and service delivery. This evolving concept aims to serve as the next generation heterogeneous service-based model, with centralized and decentralized clients, servers, services, and data storage entities across multiple platforms. Mobile cloud computing (mcc), which is a subset of the cloud computing space, is where a number of the cloud entities are mobile-based. This paper is focused around the idea of mcc deployment in the healthcare areas, defining the cloud computing mobile health (mhealth), (ccmh), which includes the relevant issues and challenges. The main contribution of this paper is a set of recommendations for the future expansions of both cloud computing and emerging mhealth technologies when they are merged together.