Healthcare Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks & Adoption Strategy

Imagine the situation of an IT director of a hospital making a choice of investing the next budget cycle into purchasing new physical servers or moving all of the hospital’s patient records, imaging, and billing services to the cloud, paying a monthly fee and not having to own the physical equipment. Such a choice must be made by IT directors in India today, as healthcare cloud computing becomes not a nice-to-have but almost an obligatory component of a plan for developing a digital infrastructure of a hospital in India. The current paper defines what healthcare cloud computing is and gives an overview of its status in India, as well as highlights the elements that must be considered in order to make a sound strategy for adopting it.

What is Healthcare Cloud Computing?

Healthcare cloud computing is about storing, processing, and managing healthcare information as well as applications on remote servers that can be accessed via the Internet. In other words, instead of procuring their own hardware where the servers are located within the premises of the hospital, the hospital would access computing power, storage capacity, and applications remotely via the Internet.

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