Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management (Feb 2015)

Identify and rank key factors influencing the adoption of cloud computing for a healthy Electronics

  • Javad Shukuhy,
  • Hamid Reza Jafari,
  • Noor Mohammad Yaghoubi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 2
pp. 549 – 572

Abstract

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Cloud computing as a new technology with Internet infrastructure and new approaches can be significant benefits in providing medical services electronically. Aplying this technology in E-Health requires consideration of various factors. The main objective of this study is to identify and rank the factors influencing the adoption of e-health cloud. Based on the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and Human-Organization-Technology fit (HOT-fit) model, 16 sub-factors were identified in four major factors. With survey of 60 experts, academics and experts in health information technology and with the help of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process had ranked these sub-factors and factors. In the literature, considering newness this study, no internal or external study, have not alluded these number of criteria. The results show that when deciding to adopt cloud computing in E-Health, respectively, must be considered technological, human, organizational and environmental factors.

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