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What is a Smart Hospital? A Review of the Literature

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The digital transformation of healthcare is a continuous and on-going process, in which, the concept of Smart hospital has bloomed as a result of the increasing efforts of digital transform the hospital domain. However, it appears that there is no clear, nor common understanding of the concept of smart hospitals beyond the application of IoT. In this paper, we address the various understandings of smart hospitals, and start with the definition developed by a Powerhouse alliance of Norwegian constructions specialists, who have borrowed conceptual ideas from autonomous cars as a basis for developing a smart building definition and a set of guidelines for different ambition levels of smartness. The paper further investigates how the guidelines fit with findings from relevant “state of the art” research. In particularly, we discuss findings within IoT and robotics regarding their scope and characteristics of a smart hospital versus smart building, as well as, we aim to categorize the studies into the respective levels of degree of smartness. Finally, we discuss our understanding of what comprises a smart hospital and provide some overall design strategies for upgrading or designing new smart hospitals.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by The Research Council of Norway (RCN) as a part of the projects: Multimodal Elderly Care systems (MECS) under Grant Agreement No. 247697, and Vulnerability in the Robot Society (VIROS) under Grant Agreement No. 288285.

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Woll, A., Tørresen, J. (2023). What is a Smart Hospital? A Review of the Literature. In: Duffy, V.G., Lehto, M., Yih, Y., Proctor, R.W. (eds) Human-Automation Interaction. Automation, Collaboration, & E-Services, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10780-1_8

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