Healthcare 4.0: trends,challenges and research directions |
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Authors: | Guilherme Luz Tortorella Flávio Sanson Fogliatto Alejandro Mac Cawley Vergara Roberto Vassolo Rapinder Sawhney |
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Affiliation: | 1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil;2. gtortorella@bol.com.br;4. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;5. Pontifícia Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile;6. Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina;7. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA |
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Abstract: | AbstractThis paper aims at examining the trends, challenges and theoretical gaps in the implementation of Healthcare 4.0 (H4.0) based on a scoping review of the literature. For that, we searched journal articles in four widely known databases and screened the retrieved articles to obtain a publications’ portfolio. Our findings indicate that, despite the recency of the subject, research in H4.0 has been conducted in an interdisciplinary way with a diversified set of applications and functionalities. In terms of its implementation, H4.0 has been more commonly found in hospitals’ information flows, especially the ones related to healthcare treatments. The identified implementation trends, however, neglect a more holistic approach for H4.0, which originated three main research directions for this topic. Although identified as a trending topic in the area of healthcare operations management, literature on H4.0 may be viewed as randomly conceived, lacking academic alignment and practical orientation based on a grounded theory, which we aim at providing with the present study. |
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Keywords: | Healthcare 4.0 smart healthcare healthcare operations management literature review |
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