Cloud Computing Technology
Literature Review
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.
Covering cloud computing is a new business experience that was to be used by those who have a desire of knowing the impacts of IT in revenue initiatives and in the operations and costs of the business. This can in turn removes the business worry of technology hence making business leaders to get fully focused in business. The journal also shows the impact of the cloud on the organization structures of various businesses. Additionally, it shows the prospective benefits in clouds models as a result of the advancement of traditional IT in the economy. The journal recognizes the IT functions in the current companies as businesses are striving to take up a wave of cloud computing (Hugos, Hulitzky, & Ebrary, 2011).
- Cloud computing can take a definition of on-demand of internet infrastructure services that assist all users to have access of particular computing resources from elsewhere in the world. This model was newly instigated to deliver computing resources. Some of the commonly used sources are applied in non health care sectors, Microsoft hotmail including Google Docs. The famous healthcare applications include Microsoft Health Vault. There is also a Google Health application that also integrates healthcare system; however, it has been withdrawn because of conventional computing which gives a provision of new massive advantages (Kuo, 2011).
- Cloud computing is also capable of maintaining data in case other facilities are distant from the customers. This is important because it is persuasive and helps companies to focus on their best and leave technology for specialists. Service providers give service more of utility and this can be regarded attractive particularly to smaller organizations that need flexibility in the challenging economy. For them price is the only component in the cost ownership (Turner, 2013).
- When it comes to data and information preservation, larger organizations are regarded to be more careful. Those factors became more essential when dealing with issues of hiring experts. Data security risks and regulatory implications are also other factors of concern and due to change, trade secrets are jeopardized. This makes larger organizations to become reluctant in adopting the system and sometimes they decide to work with specialists hired in their own companies (Benton-Short & Merrigan, 2015).
- In most institutions these days, sustainability has gained currency inside classroom in terms of practice or research. Sustainability was derived during the explanation of pan-university approach and how it could be developed. The academic program under sustainability dwells under provost’s office but not within the classroom. This therefore means that sustainability is for all schools. In development of pan-university, sustainability is open to every student. The program also takes into account courses and faculty from all universities. As universities strive to put efforts in integrating sustainability in the curriculum, the important aspect is team-teaching. Sustainability is regarded to be related to trans-disciplinary and other team taught courses in order to attain multiple perspectives (Blonski & Spagnolo, 2015).
- The paradigm cloud computing gives a new model to utilize storage and computing services flexibly. However, such flexibility that involves data outsourcing and business applications may bring in issues of critical security. This therefore calls for new security paradigms that are capable of facing problems brought by cloud approach. Despite the fact that , several solutions were proposed in the past years, there is still complexity in the implementation of secure cloud. With these considerations, it is necessary to develop a methodology that puts into consideration concerns of security as a key part of cloud based implementation (Calabrese & Cannatoaro, 2015).
- Cloud computing has been rated as a fast and a growing area as far as development in healthcare is concerned. Omnipresent, accessing on-demand in effect to endless resources allows new ways of developing, using and delivering services. It is also applied in the context of OMICS for example in genomics computing, molecular and proteomics medicine and other fields still look underrepresented. Hence the objective of scoping review was to find out the state of cloud computing and the hot topics about it in the healthcare department beyond the traditional realm (Ficco, Palmieri & Castiglione, 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 private hospitals whose aim is to eradicate diseases and in the process prevents 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 (Thakur, S.H.Y & Fontenot, 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 (Yarlikas & Bilgen, 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, Kirchberg, & Lee, 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, Mohamed & Al-Jaroodi, 2012).
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