Tatiana Ermakova, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Recently proposed health applications are able to enforce essential advancements in the healthcare sector. The design of these innovative solutions is often enabled through the cloud computing model. With regards to this technology, high concerns about information security and privacy are common in practice. These concerns with respect to sensitive medical information could be a hurdle to successful adoption and consumption of cloud-based health services, despite high expectations and interest in these services. This research attempts to understand behavioural intentions of healthcare professionals to adopt health clouds in their clinical practice. Based on different established theories on IT adoption and further related theoretical insights, we develop a research model and a corresponding instrument to test the proposed research model using the partial least squares (PLS) approach. We suppose that healthcare professionals’ adoption intentions with regards to health clouds will be formed by their outweighing two conflicting beliefs which are performance expectancy and medical information security and privacy concerns associated with the usage of health clouds. We further suppose that security and privacy concerns can be explained through perceived risks.

Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Adoption, Physician, Security and Privacy Concerns