Cloud Computing for Improved Healthcare: Techniques, Potential and Challenges

With the advent of technology the healthcare solutions can be delivered to the intended user by enabling technology solution. The traditional healthcare methodology is being replaced by smarter health care clouds. The research highlights on potential and challenges of integrating cloud enabled health care systems. The Software as a Service (SaaS) for healthcare is developed to handle readily changing doctor and patient needs across the globe. The paper highlights benefits and challenges of using cloud based healthcare systems. Further the discussions are applied on the different health care clouds and models that can be implemented by the healthcare industry. It further illustrates architecture and leading providers of SaaS based solutions to the healthcare practitioners. How the companies have applied SaaS for viable business healthcare model. Discussions are also applied on how data mining techniques for cloud based healthcare big data can help in extracting valuable information.