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Health 4.0

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Health 4.0 and Medical Supply Chain

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The goal of Industry 4.0 is to strengthen the manufacturing sector by utilizing digitalization. Health 4.0 is a term used to describe the digital change occurring in the sector of health in parallel with Industry 4.0. Smart health, mobile health and mobile health applications, wireless health, e-health, online health, telehealth or telemedicine, digital medicine, health informatics, medical information technology, pervasive health, and health information systems and applications are all discussed within the context of Health 4.0. The goal of Health 4.0 is to provide improved, value-added, and cost-effective healthcare to patients while also improving the healthcare industry’s efficiency and productivity. “Natural language processing, deep learning, and virtual reality” have been recognized as three critical technologies for Health 4.0 which have the potential to produce applications that will have a significant influence on healthcare services. Despite the numerous studies on the quality of health care and service provision, it is difficult to clearly reveal the quality due to intangibility, heterogeneity, and simultaneity in health services and health care. Consequently, using the Industry 4.0 strategy, Health 4.0 is a remarkable approach with a lot of promise to improve the quality of health services and health care. Health 4.0 has the ability to assist in the transition of the health sector from a reactive and cost-per-service-centered system to a value-based one that monitors outcomes and supports proactive prevention, according to the article. Novel designs and researches that have completed the PUKO cycle, have a widespread effect, and have an influence on large populations and data sets can be recommended in Health 4.0 integration. With these designs and researches, Health 4.0 will improve and become an actuality.

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Kolcu, M.İ.B., Kolcu, G. (2023). Health 4.0. In: İyigün, İ., Görçün, Ö.F. (eds) Health 4.0 and Medical Supply Chain. Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1818-8_9

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