Although the adoption is still not widespread, the future looks promising for this technology as 69 percent of IT decision makers across the region said they currently have budget assigned to cloud computing.

Findings from the survey indicate that healthcare service providers in the Asia Pacific region do not want to reduce cloud spending in the next three years.

More than half of those surveyed said they plan to spend more on cloud computing in the next three years.

"The healthcare industry is waking up to the benefits of cloud architectures in solving their human resource issues, and helping them in their strategic business goals of improving patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes, and providing collaborative healthcare," said Sash Mukherjee, senior market analyst for IDC Health Insights Asia/Pacific.