Risk Classes of Cloud Computing Project in Healthcare: A Review of Technical Report and Standards

Abstract

Cloud computing has been shown to have positive impacts on the organization such as “cost savings”, “enhanced efficiency”, etc. Cloud computing has been implemented in multiple sectors around the world including the healthcare sector. The rise of chronic illnesses requires the assistance of new technologies such as cloud computing to bring flexibility and convenience to treat these illnesses. However, as with all IT architecture projects, there are risks and challenges to adopting cloud computing. As such this study aims to find the prevailing risk classes of cloud computing projects in healthcare through risk classes discussed in technical reports and standards. This study will employ TLR as a method for this study. Through this study, we found five technical reports and standards that discuss the risk management of cloud computing. The result shows that there are 13 prevalent risk classes of cloud computing. We hope that the results discovered through this study can help academics, researchers, and practitioners to recognize what are the prevalent risk classes currently discussed regarding cloud computing and whether the discussion has matured or not.