Recent Challenges, Issues, and Initiatives for Cloud Computing Adoption in Healthcare: A Survey

There are many opportunities and advantages that cloud computing adoption can bring to the healthcare field, as experts believe that it can help improve the level of healthcare services significantly and contribute to its regular and continuous innovation. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current literature on the common limitations and problems facing the cloud in healthcare. A brief introduction to cloud computing and the benefits of its adoption is also provided, in addition to a review of the most important security protection standards applied in this field. This paper highlights the most important problems and challenges that still exist in cloud-based healthcare systems. Finally, relevant recent research is reviewed and the most recent initiatives that contribute to solving problems for healthcare applications are identified. It was concluded that these solutions and initiatives are not comprehensive in nature as they partially address issues related to data security in the cloud.