Electronic health cloud as service to improve collaboration in healthcare organizations

Abstract

There are many factors contributing to lack of collaboration which relates to teamwork and partnership in healthcare organization such as low awareness level in technology use, computer literacy, absence of e-health cloud, poor health information systems, decentralized systems, language barriers, difficulty to manage and control large amounts of data, work independently and time factor. Among medical staffs it is important to be able to share information and knowledge in patient treatments by having a better implementation of the electronic health cloud as service can improve and enhance the collaboration This research was conducted using mixed method approach combining observations, questionnaires and interviews used to determine the level of collaboration among medical staff in e-health cloud environment.