Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2021 Nov;212:106466. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106466. Epub 2021 Oct 12.
The population in Saudi Arabia is expected to reach 40 million by 2025. Consequently, healthcare information will become critical to manage. Despite the fact that adopting cloud computing in the Saudi healthcare organizations can facilitate cost reduction, capacity building, institutional interoperability, and get access to data analytics, the adoption rate is very low. Hence, a new model is proposed to adopt cloud computing in the Saudi healthcare organization. The novelty of this work comes from using a quantitative method to test users' attitudes, data security, data control, data privacy, compliance, and reliability influence on the cloud computing adoption intention in the context of Saudi Arabian healthcare organizations. Partial Least Squares (PLS) method based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for model development. About 160 respondents from the relevant health organizations participated. The result shows that the attitude towards using technology, data security, compliance, and reliability of the cloud computing services are important determining factors in the adoption of cloud computing in Saudi healthcare organizations. However, the distinction in the findings regarding Data privacy and Data control in the Saudi healthcare organizational context is a clear manifestation of the fact that there is a need for policy formation for data privacy, data control, and data protection legislation in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, raising awareness regarding the practice of data privacy and data control policies among IT managers is essential. Future study should use a more holistic and industry-specific framework such as the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework to find new influencing factors from the domains of technological context, the organizational context, and the environmental context.
预计到 2025 年，沙特阿拉伯的人口将达到 4000 万。因此，医疗保健信息将变得至关重要。尽管在沙特医疗机构中采用云计算可以降低成本、增强能力、实现机构间的互操作性并获取数据分析，但采用率非常低。因此，提出了一种新的模型来在沙特医疗机构中采用云计算。这项工作的新颖之处在于使用定量方法来测试用户对云计算采用意图的态度、数据安全性、数据控制、数据隐私、法规遵从性和可靠性的影响，这些影响是在沙特阿拉伯医疗机构的背景下产生的。使用基于偏最小二乘法 (PLS)的结构方程建模 (SEM) 来开发模型。大约有 160 名来自相关卫生组织的受访者参与了调查。结果表明，使用技术的态度、云计算服务的数据安全性、法规遵从性和可靠性是决定沙特医疗机构采用云计算的重要因素。然而，在沙特医疗机构背景下，数据隐私和数据控制方面的发现存在差异，这清楚地表明，沙特阿拉伯需要制定数据隐私、数据控制和数据保护立法方面的政策。因此，提高 IT 经理对数据隐私和数据控制实践的认识是至关重要的。未来的研究应该使用更全面和特定于行业的框架，如技术-组织-环境 (TOE) 框架，从技术环境、组织环境和环境等领域中寻找新的影响因素。
