This paper aims at finding the most dominant ideas about the marketing of healthcare systems highlighted in the mainstream literature, with a focus on Russia and Romania. To reach this goal, a systematic analysis of literature was conducted and vario...
The third United Nations Sustainable Development Goal promotes health and well-being. Despite the existence of academic literature examining the relationship between health and income inequality, evidence on the role of healthcare systems in this ine...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered healthcare systems worldwide, highlighting healthcare expenditure’s critical role in fostering population resilience and wellness. This extraordinary situation has brought t...
Health information system deployment has been driven by the transformation and digitalization currently confronting healthcare. The need and potential of these systems within healthcare have been tremendously driven by the global instability that has...
Healthcare sustainability has been dominated by a strong fiscal orientation. In an era of budget cuts and staff reductions, the financial challenges in Canadian healthcare are immediate and must be addressed. However, an independent focus on financia...
20 May 2019
Frail elderly people refer to multi-diseased and vulnerable patients in need of medication and healthcare. These patients require healthcare from several different healthcare organizations, including hospital care, primary care, and municipal care se...
The global Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) market is growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.8%, a testament to the increasing demand for IoMT in the health sector. However, more IoMT devices mean an increase in the volume and velocit...
29 February 2024
This study addresses the crucial need for resilient healthcare systems, highlighted by recent global health emergencies such as the Ebola and COVID-19 crises. It identifies a significant gap in the current literature: a lack of practical, actionable...
Chronic diseases are on the rise, increasing in number and treatment regimen complexity. Consequently, the needs of patients with chronic diseases are increasing and becoming more complex and multi-faceted. Such chronic conditions require addressing...
Objective: The study aims to investigate the impact of patient-centric approaches on patient health outcomes, identify key leverage points for enhancing patient-centered care, and evaluate the effectiveness of systems thinking in guiding healthcare t...
IoT has played an essential role in many industries over the last few decades. Recent advancements in the healthcare industry have made it possible to make healthcare accessible to more people and improve their overall health. The next step in health...
The development of e-healthcare systems requires the application of advanced technologies, such as blockchain technology. The main challenge of applying blockchain technology to e-healthcare is to handle the impact of the delay that results from bloc...
The rapid digital transformation of healthcare has improved clinical efficiency, patient engagement, and data accessibility, but it has also introduced significant cyber security and data privacy challenges. Healthcare IT systems increasingly rely on...
Healthcare quality systems have evolved from narrow inspection and compliance mechanisms into broader, multi-level architectures that combine standards, measurement, organizational learning, patient safety, equity and patient-reported outcomes. Yet t...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the perception of healthcare professionals in improving the quality of services in healthcare centers by deploying the platform of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Individual attributes, organizational impr...
This paper surveys the available system architectures for cyber-physical systems. Several candidate architectures are examined using a series of essential qualities for cyber-physical systems for healthcare. Next, diagrams detailing the expected func...
The analyses of current healthcare systems in Russia and Romania made by different scholars in the specialty literature highlight a below-medium health quality index worldwide, which is especially low when compared to leading EU countries. The prevai...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been integrated into legacy healthcare systems for the purpose of improving healthcare processes. As one of the key technologies of IoT, radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied to offer servi...
Healthcare Information Systems (HISs) are essential for improving care quality, managing chronic diseases, and supporting clinical decision-making. Despite significant investments, HIS implementations often fail due to the complexity of healthcare en...
Healthcare delivery fragmentation can be understood as a structural coordination problem within a socio-technical System of Systems, where autonomous but interdependent providers, insurers, suppliers, information systems, support services, and care r...
In response to contemporary challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, armed conflicts, and economic instability, healthcare systems worldwide are increasingly confronted with multifaceted and overlapping crises—collectively refe...
The incorporation of machine learning (ML) into healthcare information systems (IS) has transformed multi-objective healthcare management by improving patient monitoring, diagnostic accuracy, and treatment optimization. Notwithstanding its revolution...
The adoption of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in healthcare has been increasingly framed as dependent on transparency, trustworthiness, and accountability. The objective of this study was the reclamation of rule-based systems within XAI a...
The U.S. healthcare delivery infrastructure functions as a complex socio-technical system-of-systems (SoS). In this environment, autonomous, interdependent entities (providers, insurers, and IT networks) must balance local efficiency with system-wide...
Using data from the WHO’s Situation Report on the COVID-19 pandemic from 21 January 2020 to 30 March 2020 along with other health, demographic, and macroeconomic indicators from the WHO’s Application Programming Interface and the World Ba...
Studies on Critical Success Factors (CSFs) in Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) development projects have traditionally often been limited to retrospectively identifying CSFs in a finished project. In this paper, we focus on how to prospectively a...
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience extensive health disparities compared to their straight and cisgender counterparts. The importance of addressing these disparities is paramount, as SGM groups often encounter significant barrier...
As healthcare systems face enormous challenges, sustainability is seen as a crucial requirement for making them fit for the future. However, there is no consensus with regard to either the definition of the term or the factors that characterize a “su...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are extremely important for patients’ treatment, doctors’ diagnoses, and medical technology development. In recent years, the distributed healthcare blockchain system has been researched for solving the i...
Modern technology and analysis of emotions play a crucial role in enabling intelligent healthcare systems to provide diagnostics and self-assistance services based on observation. However, precise data predictions and computational models are critica...
Mobile health systems have become a central component of the health sector, reshaping how healthcare is accessed, delivered, and experienced, especially in developing countries with limited infrastructure. Mobile health systems are interactive and en...
This article presents a novel hardware-assisted distributed ledger-based solution for simultaneous device and data security in smart healthcare. This article presents a novel architecture that integrates PUF, blockchain, and Tangle for Security-by-De...
Affective computing is a field of study that integrates human affects and emotions with artificial intelligence into systems or devices. A system or device with affective computing is beneficial for the mental health and wellbeing of individuals that...
21 September 2022
Interoperability is defined as the ability of a system or device to communicate between different technologies and software applications. This allows the exchange and use of data in an efficient, precise, and robust way. The present article gives res...
In recent years, the globe has faced a series of topics of growing concern, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the international financial crisis, rising socio-economic inequalities, the negative outcomes of greenhouse gas emissions, which resulted in cl...
Korea initiated a new experiment, called a dynamic response system for open democratic societies as a principle to respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The global pandemic of COVID-19 led to a surge in demand for healthcare medical masks and...
The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems represents a pivotal step toward the realization of a sustainable society. This study aims to analyze representative scientific literature on eco-sustainable energy production in the healthcare...
The rising complexity and operational demands of modern healthcare systems have significantly increased resource usage and associated costs. This trend highlights the need for innovative approaches to optimize workflows and enhance decision-making. F...
The integration of the IoT into healthcare opens new horizons while introducing ethical and legal challenges to preserving patients’ privacy. This paper provides a comprehensive review of privacy-preserving mechanisms in IoT-based healthcare sy...
Healthcare fragmentation—characterized by poor coordination among independently operating organizations—systematically degrades care quality while escalating costs. While healthcare delivery inherently operates as a System of Systems (SoS...
Although the electronic health (e-health) cloud computing system is a promising innovation, its adoption in the healthcare industry has been slow. This study investigated the adoption of e-health cloud computing systems in the healthcare industry and...
The objective of this article is to discuss the inherent bias involved with artificial intelligence-based decision support systems for healthcare. In this article, the authors describe some relevant work published in this area. A proposed overview of...
Healthcare 5.0 represents the next evolution in intelligent and interconnected healthcare systems, leveraging emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) to enhance patient care and automation....
Background/Objectives: Innovation capacity has become a strategic pillar for strengthening healthcare systems in the European Union, yet its effects vary considerably across countries with different levels of institutional development and technologic...
This study is dedicated to solving the problem of how urban healthcare systems function in crisis situations. Cases where crisis situations lead either to population migrations or to a rapid increase in demand for medical services are the focus. Ther...
Tourism and destination healthcare systems are increasingly interdependent, yet this relationship remains weakly conceptualised within tourism and hospitality research. Expanding travel flows introduce transient populations, seasonal demand volatilit...
Smart wearable patch systems that combine biosensing and therapeutic components have emerged as promising approaches for personalized healthcare and therapeutic platforms that enable self-administered, noninvasive, user-friendly, and long-acting smar...
Background: Systems thinking (ST) is an approach to problem-solving that views systems through a holistic perspective, focusing on the interconnections and relationships between various elements. In healthcare, the World Health Organization’s 2...
The healthcare system’s climate footprint is equivalent to 4.4% of global net emission. The food service offered, with subsequent food waste production and energy consumption, falls within the spectrum of environmentally harmful activities. The devel...
The increasingly widespread use of IoT devices in healthcare systems has heightened the need for sustainable and efficient cybersecurity measures. In this paper, we introduce the W-RLG Model, a novel deep learning approach that combines Whale Optimiz...
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