The Pivotal Role of Geospatial Information Systems based on Hybrid Cloud Computing for the Health Sector in Egypt

Abstract Mapping is always a tedious task which has been improved rapidly with the use of high performance computers and digital data processing techniques. As a result for the technology revolution, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in wide range of sectors. Using such a tool for the Health sector is very useful as a supporting system for making best possible decisions through spatial and nonspatial data relations, visualization and processing. GIS is more beneficial when it’s available to many people as possible everywhere and anytime. So Cloud Computing could be applied to offer the location independence accessibility. But which cloud deployment model would be the best to apply for the health sector? This paper answers the question by defining the different cloud deployment models and declaring the benefits of the proposed framework that merge the GIS with the concept of Cloud Computing depending on the Hybrid deployment model to solve the problem of bad distribution of health services and to cover the shortage areas by making Data analysis and classification using different approaches in order to present this data on useful maps that will help the decision makers in making more accurate and right decisions in order to illustrate the benefits of using the Cloud GIS.