Hospital 4.0 roadmap: an agile implementation guideline for hospital manager

Abstract

Social and economic developments, such as the progressive aging of society or rigorous budgetary policies, combined with the latest unforeseen outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19 have shown the fragility of healthcare systems. Today more than ever, concepts like flexibility, agility and efficiency assume significance also for the design of healthcare systems. To increase agility and robustness of healthcare systems, this paper presents an implementation approach for Hospital 4.0 based on a profound analysis of scientific literature about Industry 4.0 and Hospital 4.0 and aims to provide a practice oriented guideline for hospital manager. The proposed roadmap is based on six phases starting with an assessment and ending with the long-term sustainable innovation and development process of future oriented Hospital 4.0 concepts. The main findings of this research is the transfer of Industry 4.0 guidelines to healthcare, leading to a comprehensive roadmap for the development and implementation of Hospital 4.0 strategies.

Application of Agile Methodology in Managing the Healthcare Sector

“…However, the broader adoption of Agile methodologies in healthcare remains limited due to challenges such as the absence of an agile culture, regulatory constraints, stakeholder complexities, and ethical concerns (Kokol, 2022;Malik et al, 2019;Rehman et al, 2018;Ribeiro & Domingues, 2018). To address these issues and unlock the full potential of Agile methodologies in healthcare, further empirical research is imperative (Kokol, 2022;Unterhofer et al, 2021). The abovereviewed articles reveal specific weaknesses, including the limited literature on adopting the Agile methodology in healthcare, necessitating more research (Improta et al, 2020;Ribeiro & Domingues, 2018).…”

“…Specifically, the ineffective EMR systems in most healthcare organizations lack alarms to clinicians, ease of order entry, and comprehensive health history. Research shows that the healthcare organizations' experience adapting to change can be attributed to ineffective teamwork (Unterhofer, Rauch, & Matt, 2021). Therefore, there is a need to adopt the agile methodology to make it easy to adopt technological changes and streamline the care delivery pipeline.…”

Utilization of Information Technology in Public Health Management: Trends and Challenges

“…These trends open up interesting chances to use IT to change the way public health is managed. By accepting these new ideas and incorporating them into current healthcare systems, public health agencies can improve the delivery of care, the monitoring of diseases, and eventually, the health and well-being of communities [11]. To fully utilize these trends, however, we need to handle several issues, such as the digital gap, worries about data privacy and security, and problems with sharing.…”

Are Health Information Systems Ready for the Digital Transformation in Portugal? Challenges and Future Perspectives

“…With the promise of empowering the creation of better healthcare services, 4IR enhances the personalization and individualization of the services provided, the optimization of resources associated with the practice of medicine, as well as the promotion of health based on preventive models [28,29]. Concepts include Health 4.0 [25,30,31] Healthcare 4.0 [32], Medicine 4.0 [33] or Care 4.0 [34], Hospital 4.0 [35,36], or more specific applications such as Surgery 4.0 [37], represent only some approaches/applications that make use of I4.0 emerging technologies to create new models of medical practice and health promotion. These concepts, in their different terminologies, represent just some extensions of the I4.0 principles applied to the medical/health area.…”