Abstract:The paper presents a systematic literature review to identify the key application areas of innovations through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in providing healthcare information to elderly population. Out of the 210 articles published in various health informatics and information systems journals, 42 were identified to meet the requirements for inclusion in the particular review. Based on our analysis, ICT innovations offered for elderly population's healthcare are classified as: smart home-based; mobile-based; online-based; and personalised device and application-based innovations. However, most of the innovations focus only on user side demands and omit the service providers' dynamic demands for information delivery. A cloud computing-based innovation shows promise to develop an effective information delivery approach to provide benefits, both for service providers and the elderly population, needing to deliver and use relevant technologies.Keywords: aging population; ICT solutions; cloud computing, healthcare informatics. Biographical notes: Shah Jahan Miah is a faculty member of Information Systems (IS) at Victoria University, Melbourne Australia. Prior to this position, he had academic positions at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Griffith University and James Cook University, Australia. He has received his PhD (in the area of decision support systems), jointly from the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems and Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia. He is an early career researcher who has lead authored over 50 peer reviewed publications including research book chapters, journal and conference papers in different IS areas and taught over 20 different IS/IT subjects for both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. His current research interests are decision support systems for industries, design science research methodologies, e-service design for businesses and healthcare information systems development.
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Information and communication technology-based innovations
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