Current Technologies in the World
Technology in today’s society is said to be the driver of human life activities and it said to be greatly advanced in today’s world. Technology has numerous contributions towards the creation of an inexpensive global community. Technology is said to have created a way for utilities in the daily lives of the human population. This has created a lot of competition and companies have been prompted to develop products that help ease and maintain relevance in the conduction of daily human activities. This entails all levels of life which include learning institution, health and daily life.
The benefits created are many and if well utilized, technology could bridge the gap that separates people on geographical basis. People are able to interact, share ideas and come up with better ideas on how to solve problems. Even though there are some disadvantages, especially in social media site, people can take it upon themselves to ensure that they are not vulnerable. Various advancement in information communication technology has led to the development of faster and cheaper ways of reaching people (P, A., & A, A. P.2014).
Covering cloud computing is the new thing in business and it meant to be used by leaders who needs to know how IT can nimbly ramp up revenue initiatives and have a positive impact on business operations and costs. This in return allows business leaders not to worry about technology so they can focus on their business. The journal also reveals the how the cloud's effect on different business organization structures and how the evolution of traditional IT in the global economy has had potential benefits in cloud models, IT functions are very important in business and companies today who are trying to make room for the coming tidal wave that is cloud computing (Ebrary, Hugos & Hulitzky, 2011).
Cloud computing can be defined as what can be refered to as an on-demand of self-service Internet infrastructure that helps the user to to get certain computing resources from any part of the world. It is a model newly launched of delivering computing resources but it is never the less a new technology. Some of the sources that are commonly used imply innon-health care applications include Microsoft Hotmail and Google Docs, however the better known applications in health care include Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health platform that incorporate with the health care syste these have however been discontunued since compared with conventional computing, this model provides three new massive advantages (Kuo, 2011).
Cloud computing is said to maintain data in other facilities that are far away from the customers. This is said to be usefull since it is compelling as it enables companies to focus on what they do best and leave the technology to people who can be considered specialists. Some of the service providers offer metered service which are much like a utility. This kind of work can be termed attractive ecepecially to a smaller organization that are looking to remain flexible in a challenging economic climate and contain costs. Price alone is only one component of the total cost of ownership (Turner, 2013).
Larger organizations are more careful when it comes to preserving their data and information. Such factors became the main concern when it comes to dealing with certain issue like hiring data experts. Other factors that matter include regulatory implications and tbe data security risks and since such change might jeopardize trade secrets. Due to this any larger organizations might be more relucunt to adopt the system or decide to work with their own company hired specialists (Benton-Short & Marrigan, 2015).
In many institutions today, universities sustainability is is said to gaincurrency in the classroom in terms of research, and how one practice. Sustainability efforts are said to have been derived from the then need to explain how the vision of a pan-university approach couls be developed. This Academic Program in Sustainability does does not nessarily reside in any one school but instead it sits under the Office of the Provost. As such, Sustainability belongs to all schools. We next discuss the development of a pan-university. Sustainability of such a product is therefore open to minor and to all students. The program features courses and faculty from all schools at the university. As universities undertake efforts to integrate sustainability into the curriculum as an important element is team-teaching. Sustainability is said to be inherently with trans-disciplinary and also other courses that are team-taught in order to generate multiple perspectives on the same issues (Blonski & Spagnolo, 2015).
The Cloud Computing paradigm provides a new model for the more flexible utilization of computing and storage services. However, such enhanced flexibility, which implies outsourcing the data and business applications to a third party, may introduce critical security issues. Therefore, there is a clear necessity of new security paradigms able to face all the problems introduced by the cloud approach. Although, in the last years, several solutions have been proposed, the implementation of secure cloud applications and services is still a complex and far from consolidated task. Starting from these considerations, this work fosters the development of a methodology that considers security concerns as an integral part of cloud-based applications design and implementation (Calabrese & Cannatoaro, 2015).
Cloud computing is rated today as the recent fast and growing area in terms of development in healthcare. Ubiquitous, on-demand access to virtually endless resources in combination with a pay-per-use model allow for new ways of developing, delivering and using services. Cloud computing is often used in an “OMICS-context”, e.g. for computing in genomics, proteomics and molecular medicine, while other field of application still seem to be underrepresented. Thus, the objective of this scoping review was to identify the current state and hot topics in research on cloud computing in healthcare beyond this traditional domain (Castiglione, Ficco & Palmieri, 2015).
In many industrialized countries hospitals are said to be the backbone of the healthcare system. For example in Germany different hospital treatments were conducted in 2012 in approximately 2000 thousand hospitals in order to get this data. Like many countries that are considered to be developed nearly half of the hospital beds were found to be placed in public ownership with the number said to be growing everyday even in privately owned hospitals. The aim of the hospitals is to basically iraducate diseases and in the process prevent their deterioration of the patients. With specialized staff and equipment one can be able to do so and it is for that reason that hospitals are trying to improve their environmemt by working on both the patients and the staff in general. Since there is a permanent risk of unsafe situations found in the hospital sector most countries are opting to use technology risk management (Griebel et al, 2015).
Cloud computing is a new technique that has been adopted by managers to deliver services and computing resources. It has been widely accepted because it is believed to enhance research on healthcare, change the view that people have of information technology in the health industry and also improve the quality of services offered at healthcare facilities. However, it is important to first evaluate the benefits of cloud computing and what will be required to maintain its success before fully adopting it. health facilities could employ various strategic plans to decide what approach to take, what strategies to use and the amount of resources to be set aside to cater for the migration from traditional health services based on the cloud and embrace cloud computing. It is also important to assess the security, technological and legal aspects and the advantages and disadvantages that will be reaped from implementing the project (Glasberg et al, 2014).
This paper demonstrates the views of different paradigms of research in describing qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods of research. It shows the effectiveness of these methods and where they best apply and in so doing, help researchers to identify the most appropriate research method to use depending on the field under study. There are also ways of evaluating the effectiveness of these methods to try and enhance the authenticity of each research method. While either research method could yield adequate results, the most reliable data collected will often be achieved by combining more than one research method (Hart, 2015).
Even though there has been a lot of positive improvements in the healthcare industry, the issue of inefficiency still prevails. Little has been done to eradicate these inefficiencies because there is a shortage of information regarding how innovation healthcare may be used to solve such issues. Medical practitioners and other executives must therefore find out how to define and understand innovation in the healthcare industry to ensure that its benefits are reaped. Health facilities must invest in ways that enable them to develop creative ideas that will guide them in making innovative decisions and getting rid of problems such as inefficiencies in the healthcare facilities (Kabachinski, 2011).
A model could be used to assess the effectiveness of cloud computing. The model takes into consideration factors such as economic, organizational, technological and other external dimensions that may exist in the world of cloud computing. By assessing such factors, the model is able to explain and simplify complex factors to providers and also those who use cloud computing. It is able to define and identify the dependent and independent variables that are involved in cloud computing. Footprint diagrams are used to illustrate the generic measurements for the various dimensions that are used in the model. In the case of the final model, detailed research was conducted, significant research reviews were conducted and interviews issued to ensure that adequate data was collected. Various experts were interviewed to make the model more credible and this information was used to create the model (Kuo, 2011).
The healthcare industry is quickly embracing information and communication technology. Rather than keeping information about patients in hand written files, most, if not all of the information about a patient is kept in a database that is well organized and is set under a specific filing system to make the information easy to access. Though this is the case, there are occurrences where the information concerning a patient is lost especially in cases where files are split up in different hospitals or different departments within the same hospital. This problem could be resolved by keeping such information in the cloud, enabling doctors to have access to the information about a patient regardless of where they may be. Having ready access to this information will not only help doctors to help the patient better, but also enhances their efficiency at work and in making decisions regarding the treatment of a patient (Mertens, 2014).
The major issue of concern when it comes to using cloud computing is the security and trust pertaining the information that they store. The need for security and safety has greatly hindered the reception and adaptability to the use of cloud computing in the healthcare industry. Industries such as healthcare, the government and banks have been the most cautious and most difficult to convince to adopt cloud computing (Fontenot, Hsu & Takur, 2012).
Even though it offers various advantages to its users, cloud computing also brings with it various challenges that hinder the success of its adoption and implementation. If it is to receive a greater reception, people must first learn to trust the new approach of storing data and experience its efficiency and flexibility. It is therefore important to help potential users to learn how issues regarding security, efficiency, trust and accessibility have been addressed to ensure that the service is not only advantageous, but also less prone to attacks (Bilgen & Yarlikas, 2013).
Due to the rise in the cost of healthcare and the decrease in the number of qualified professionals in the medical field, healthcare organizations are starting to embrace health information technology. The health information technology systems make it possible for medical practitioners to conduct most of their processes more efficiently and in a manner that enables them to save on cost. Technological advancements such as the introduction of cloud computing are responsible for strengthening the medical infrastructure and improving efficiency because ensure that health information technology systems can be accessed over the internet (Z, A., A, A., & S, A. 2014).
To deal with the issue of future demand and the high costs in the medical industry, healthcare institutions could adopt a pay as you use model of the cloud computing systems. Even with its advantages, people are yet to fully embrace health information technology systems and this is as a result of lack of adequate guidelines to show how such systems work and their success. Another factor that discourages institutions from adopting these systems is the issue of security and privacy of the information that will be stored (Ko, R. K. L., Kirchberg, M., & Lee, B. 2014).
There is a need to enhance the security of cloud computing to ensure that the information stored is secure. Clod computing security normally employs the use of various policies, measures of control and forms of technology to ensure that the data stored is secure. The risk to the security of data stored in clod computing falls under two categories. One is the risk to the providers of the cloud service while the other is risk to the users or customer who adopt the clod computing systems and store their data. Even though there is a form of shared responsibility, providers must ensure that their services are secure and that the data stored is protected. Users must also play their role by using strong passwords and keeping them confidential to prevent others from having access to the data they store (Abukhousa, Al-Jaroodi & Mohamed, 2012).
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