Hospital Investment Decisions in Healthcare 4.0 Technologies: Scoping Review and Framework for Exploring Challenges, Trends, and Research Directions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alternative approaches to analyzing and evaluating health care investments in state-of-the-art technologies are being increasingly discussed in the literature, especially with the advent of Healthcare 4.0 (H4.0) technologies or eHealth. Such investments generally involve computer hardware and software that deal with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. Besides, the use of these technologies significantly increases when addressed in bundles. However, a structured and holistic approach to analyzing investments in H4.0 technologies is not available in the literature.

Objective

This study aims to analyze previous research related to the evaluation of H4.0 technologies in hospita

SUBMITTER: Vassolo RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8430851 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature