Cloud Computing in Healthcare: Challenges and Recommendations

This report examines the application of cloud computing, specifically Microsoft Azure, in the healthcare sector for data storage, remote patient monitoring, and care coordination. It identifies critical issues, including potential data breaches due to security vulnerabilities and the dependency on internet access, which can hinder data retrieval and affect healthcare delivery. The report recommends improvements to the system algorithm for enhanced security, advocating for single-source data usage to minimize access points and reduce breach risks. Furthermore, it suggests developing backup systems to ensure data retrieval even in the absence of internet connectivity. This report provides a concise overview of the challenges and potential solutions related to cloud computing in healthcare, providing a comprehensive analysis of the current issues and suggesting practical recommendations for improvement.

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Issue
The health care system is now very much advance and hence, the data storing is one of
the most important factors in the health care sector. On this context it can be found that the cloud
computing is the newest technologies found for the data storage management. Based on this
factor it can be found that the Microsoft Azure is the newest and the most used cloud computing
system which helps the health care system to store, analyze, remote patient monitoring, care
coordination and many other factors (Azure.microsoft.com, 2020). However, the cloud
computing system has several issues despite of advance technology. The issues are comprised
with data breaching possibility that is the security issue and the dependency of internet facility.
The data breaching can happen as the security of the cloud computing is still have some flaws
and the internet dependency can develop an issue in the process of data retrieval if internet
facility is not available and affect the health care delivery as well.
Recommendation
Based on the above issues it can be recommended that the improvement of the syst3em
algorithm is required for tight security development. Moreover, the single mother source usage
would also be effective in the process of the security improvement as the lesser access to the data
can reduce the risk of data breach (Daman, Tripathi & Mishra, 2016). Furthermore, the backup
system should also be developed for the improvement of the situation regarding data retrieval in
lack of internet access.

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