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Special Issue on Digital Health; Volume 13, Issue 3, 2023 pages 175-259
Guest Editors: Jennifer Percival, Dean of the Schmidthorst College of Business and Professor at Bowling Green State University ([email protected]) and Tarun Mohan Lal, Atrium Health Navicent ([email protected]).
Description: Technology, data-driven knowledge, and consumerism will establish the next generation of health care. To thrive in this environment, organizations must break through the old paradigm, understand the shifting market, and seize the opportunities to transform health care to leverage technologies and be more consumer-focused. While COVID-19 has proven healthcare’s natural evolution into the digital age, there is much work ahead of us to continue to advance the business model for digital care, patient acceptance, user experience, and clinician adoption. Continued execution of robust digital care is a transformational change that requires integration and coordination of professional, support and administrative staffs, sophisticated clinical and information technology, critical processes and inventories, and facility resources in a standardized fashion which cannot be accomplished without analytics, change management, and process engineering support. To support this national and international strategic priority, this special issue focuses on examining innovative telehealth and clinical automation, measuring the use and scalable developments, business process guidance, market research, and the economic impact of digital health innovations in an evolving health technology sector. It includes applied articles that feature original research, pilot studies, case use, best practices and perspectives from medical, technical, allied health, policy, safety, economic, strategic, education, and social impact disciplines.
Smart Healthcare Services and Technology-Driven Healthcare Systems; Volume 11, Issue 3, 2021 pages 171-270
Guest Editors: Bjorn Berg, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA, ([email protected]), Nicole E. Werner, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA, ([email protected]), Christian Wernz, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, ([email protected]), Xiaolei Xie, Tsinghua University, China, ([email protected]) and Xiang Zhong, University of Florida, USA, ([email protected].
Description: The healthcare industry is in an era of rapid technological advancements worldwide. The next-generation of health information technologies and medical devices are being rapidly adopted, which has had a significant impact on safety, quality, costs, and access in healthcare. Meanwhile, Industry 4.0 has promoted the use of new technologies such as wearable sensors, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. The adoption of these new technologies not only makes it possible to collect large amounts of high-frequency data, but also enables new service offerings, such as electronic visits for primary care, telemedicine for specialty care, and tele-ICU for critical conditions. These technology-enabled service innovations allow healthcare systems to provide patient-centric and high-value services. Entering the new era of technology-driven healthcare 4.0, the industry is faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. To survive and thrive, healthcare organizations need to understand the dynamics of the new social-technical systems, and approach the design, policy, and operational challenges from a systems perspective and with a data-to-decision mindset. Within this context, this special issue addresses these emerging issues in healthcare from both academia and industrial practice by publishing innovative work on related topics in the fields of operations research, human factors, medical decision-making, health informatics, and health policy.