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Requirements Engineering Framework for Information Utility Infrastructure for rural e-healthcare Service Provisioning

Requirements Engineering Framework for Information Utility Infrastructure for rural e-healthcare Service Provisioning
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Author(s): O. O. Olugbara (University of Zululand, South Africa), S. O. Ojo (University of Zululand, South Africa)and M. O. Adigun (University of Zululand, South Africa)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch439
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Abstract

The accessibility to important healthcare resources and the costs of healthcare services are serious challenges facing the rural communities of most developing countries. In order to address these problems, we are pursuing rigorous experimental investigations for the development of an information utility infrastructure, which takes advantages of emerging Utility Grid Computing (UGC) and Body Area Network (BAN) for ubiquitous e-Healthcare service provisioning. In this paper, we derive the system requirements from enterprise models and delineate the general framework guiding the development of the infrastructure.

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