Applications and analysis of cloud computing in health care: Emerging trends and practices.

Remarkable number of healthcare data produced on day to day basis. Cloud computing has seen exponential growth over a short period of time in various sectors. Cloud computing is advantageous in providing economical services to its customers, for data storage, data collection, efficient data analysis of large patient's population. A survey of three hundred twenty hospitals in Indian, of rural and urban areas has shown the interest of hospitals for adopting cloud technology. In order to deal with the brisk improvement in IT and usage of cloud based services, numerous attempts should be applied to change healthcare data from traditional paper based towards the electronic form. To regulate and control the usage of healthcare data many regional legislation and policies should be enacted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]