Cloud computing adoption conceptual model of Malaysian hospitals

Abstract

The emerging of cloud computing with flexibility, improve accessing data and cost saving has made this technology popular and fast-growing. As a result it has created interests among healthcare companies seeking to explore the cloud technology. Although there are many benefits of cloud computing, healthcare industries are typically slow in adopting it. The goal of this paper is to review cloud computing benefits and implementation aspects in hospitals, identify cloud computing adoption factors and to propose a conceptual model for understanding the adoption phenomenon by considering security perspective in the case of hospitals in Malaysia.