Key Challenges in Implementing Cloud Computing in Indian Healthcare Industry

The purpose of this work is to find out the challenges in implementing cloud computing in Indian healthcare industry. Cloud computing has grown exponentially in quick time and has found its usage in wide variety of industries. There are a number of advantages that cloud computing offers to customers in number of industries e.g. low cost services to its customers. However unlike other industries, Indian healthcare industry is so far unable to make any significant use of cloud computing. A survey conducted with 320 Indian hospitals of urban and rural areas, shows that majority of the hospitals are interested in adopting the cloud technology. However, hospitals showed concerns on security, interoperability, Support capability and quality of the cloud service providers. Through this paper we are aiming to solve this puzzle and try to identify reasons or challenges as to why Indian healthcare industry is unable to take full advantages of cloud computing.