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.