Cloud Computing in Healthcare: Benefits and Challenges

The assignment discusses the benefits of applying cloud computer technology in healthcare, including reduced costs, improved security, and enhanced collaboration among healthcare providers. It highlights how cloud storage helps protect vital healthcare data, prevents leakage, and provides recovery services. The technology has been adopted by institutions like Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, which uses it to track at-risk infants post-surgery, resulting in a reduction of fatality rates. While there are challenges to adopting this technology, such as limited skills and funds, experts believe that with proper approaches, healthcare institutions can successfully adopt cloud technology and reap its benefits.

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Technology and Social Changes in Healthcare
Applying cloud computer technology in healthcare enables to store large amount of data
at an unbelievably low cost without having to bear the expenses and limitations of additional
servers or hardware. Cloud storage helps in protecting vital healthcare data, prevents leakage,
have recovery services and strong backup base. National health services (NHS), UK has utilized
cloud technology for storing information of patients. The potential benefits of using cloud are
reduced costs, improved security and making the in house team free to work on other activities
among them. The main benefit of this technology is social care, primary care and hospitals can
unite through this software platform without sending physical letters to one another (Cowan,
Ruth Schwartz 81-97). As the institute adapts this technology, GPs and hospitals will be able
collaborate easily and closely within real time. Cloud will also help in sharing data through
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has been using cloud technology which
supports tablet based application and enables parents and providers to pass data related to at risk
infants post surgery. This program has reduced the rate of fatality; cloud technology has
positively impacted the clinical outcome of the hospital. Thus the adoption of this innovative

technology has helped the healthcare institutions earn immense benefits but has also increased
competition between the several institutes who have adopted it. There are some obstacles related
to adopting this technology like limited skills and funds but experts believe that NHS will
achieve success slowly by adopting approaches emphasizing on cloud while making new
developments (Weaver et al.).

Works cited
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. "The “Industrial Revolution” in the home: household technology and
social change in the twentieth century." The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space
and Gender. Routledge, 2018. 81-97.
Weaver, Paul, et al. Sustainable technology development. Routledge, 2017.