Healthcare 4.0: Trends, Challenges and Benefits

The Fourth Industry Revolution, known as Industry 4.0, refers to the forces that are transforming industry, including the healthcare industry, where it has been termed Healthcare 4.0. Though lagging other industries in the adoption of new innovative technologies, the healthcare industry is embracing the potential benefits that arise from new innovative technologies. New trends revealed both in the academic literature and by industry practice show that researchers and practitioners are becoming more aware of the benefits technology can bring to an industry as complex as the healthcare industry. The object of the study is to identify the challenges, trends and gaps in the existing body of research with regard to Healthcare 4.0. In this study, a systematic literature review on Healthcare 4.0 research papers was conducted to identify trends, challenges and the perceived benefits that may arise from it. This paper found that there is a need to conduct more empirical studies in this area. It, further, identified the need to implement practical procedures in the industry to get feedback from patients and healthcare participants in order to promote the adoption of new Healthcare 4.0 technologie

Classification and comparison of strategic information systems planning methodologies: a conceptual framework

Strategic planning for information systems remains as one of the top concerns and continues to be a critical issue for many chief information officers and their organisations. Also, a comprehensive review of the recent information systems planning literature reveals that selecting a proper methodology used in developing an information systems plan is one of the success factors related to the success of the IS planning process. Although this individual success factor should have attracted more research and discussions, there have not been enough attempts to create a framework to compare and classify strategic information systems planning methodologies to select a proper method for a specific organisation with its unique requirements, hence a gap in literature. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is primarily to bridge this gap by proposing a conceptual framework to classify strategic information systems planning methodologies to choose the suitable methodology(ies) according to specific requirements of an organisation

A Suggested Blockchain Architecture for Healthcare Data Sharing

In today’s knowledge economy, healthcare generates massive amounts of highly sensitive data ranging from genomic data to medical records that are central for clinical knowledge discovery and decision making. However, storage and sharing of these health data has led to several challenges most notably around ownership, privacy, data breaches and data theft. Intelligent digital transformation of healthcare is required to overcome these challenges by storing and sharing such health data responsibly and securely. In recent years, blockchain, particularly private blockchain, has been explored as a technology to address some of these issues in various industries. Blockchain developments in the healthcare sector are still very nascent. To address this key void, we proffer a generic private blockchain platform for healthcare to address the growing data challenges. We adopt the design science research methodology in our work. In this paper, we present our proffered model and the proposed blockchain architecture