CROSS Magazine Issue 08 | Page 10

C RO S S Keynote Speech I Taking the example of medical service, Minister Chang used the example of the medical service in Taiwan. Using the mainframes with distributed data terminal, patient’s medical record can be accessible in all internal computers within the hospital that provided the service to the patient. When the patient switched to another hospital for a medical service, his data will not be accessible by the other hospital, causing the inconvenience on both the patients and the service provider. However, when the patient’s data is stored using the Cloud Computing system, the patient’s medical record will be available in any hospitals in Taiwan in realtime fashion, reducing the operating time and cost, thus increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical service. 10