Serverless Architecture for Healthcare Management Systems

Abstract

Serverless computing is an emerging cloud service architecture for executing distributed applications, where services are provided based on a pay-as-you-go basis. It allows the developers to deploy and run their applications without worrying about the underlying architecture. Serverless architecture has been popular due to its cost-effective policies, auto-scaling, independent, and simplified code deployment. The healthcare service can be made available as a serverless application that consists of distributed cloud services achieving the various requirements in the healthcare industry. The services offered may be made available on premise on a cloud infrastructure to users and health service providers. This chapter presents a novel model for serverless architecture for healthcare systems, where the services are provided as functional units to various stakeholders of the healthcare system. Two case studies related to healthcare systems that have adopted serverless frameworks are discussed.