Role of Cloud Computing for Improvement in Healthcare Services

Abstract

Cloud helps in offering on-demand latest technology that helps in deploying, accessing and using network-accessed information along with various applications and resources. Nowadays electronic health records are maintained by many hospitals that want to undergo a change in their legacy system. This type of transformation has helped physicians, nurses and also administrative staff access the desired record whenever needed. They believe that this may change the complete face of health information technology. However, lack of security and privacy are two important concerns that may provide hazards when choosing cloud solutions for various health-related factors. This problem can be avoided to some extent by evaluating cloud technology in an effective manner before its complete adoption. This paper uses four major aspects i.e., technology, security, legal and management for finding different types of challenges of this computing model. When any health services want to migrate from traditional to cloud-based health services then they can do different types of strategic planning for determining strategy, allocated resources and direction for maintaining a cloud environment in their organization.