Readiness assessment for the use of cloud computing in eHealth systems: A field study of hospitals in the capital of Azerbaijan

Cloud computing technology platforms could be used amongst healthcare service providers in order to provide interoperability for electronic medical records of the community. As new and emerging technologies e-health and cloud computing together provide much more efficient medical help making it possible for healthcare organization to cure its patients on distance with maximum efficiency and minimum cost for both patient and hospital. Research is conducted to investigate the readiness of implementing cloud computing together with eHealth systems in hospitals across Baku, capital of Republic of Azerbaijan. Four major attributes for readiness were considered, Core, Technology, Policy and Social. A survey was conducted using quantitative method to obtain information from 10 different hospitals using stratified random sampling method. It was investigated that the core readiness shows a good characteristics, although social and policy readiness appears weak while technology readiness also shows reasonable results.