Critical Success Factors for Successful Implementation of Healthcare 4.0: A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda.

The digitization of healthcare services is a major shift in the manner in which healthcare services are offered and managed in the modern era. The COVID-19 pandemic has speeded up the use of digital technologies in the healthcare sector. Healthcare 4.

Blockchain-based solution for COVID-19 vaccine waste reduction.

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have been produced on a large scale since 2020. However, large-scale vaccine production has led to two forms of waste; namely, overproduction and underutilization. Most of today's systems and technologies used to manage waste data related to COVID-19 vaccines fall short of providing transparency, traceability, accountability, trust, and security features.

The Impact of Healthcare 4.0 on the Healthcare Service Quality: A Systematic Literature Review.

Healthcare 4.0 is inspired by Industry 4.0 and its application has resulted in a paradigmatic shift in the field of healthcare.

An exploratory study into the use of Lean Six Sigma to reduce medication errors in the Norwegian public healthcare context.

Purpose: Medication errors are a significant cause of injury in Norwegian hospitals. The purpose of this study is to explore how Lean Six Sigma (LSS) has been used in the Norwegian public health-care context to reduce medication errors.

Design/methodology/approach: A mixed method approach was used to gather data from participants working in the four regions served by the Norway health authorities.

Can Lean Six Sigma be used to reduce medication errors in the health-care sector?

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the implementation of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to reduce medication errors, by using four case examples. The paper will also suggest appropriate Lean and Sigma tools to improve the medication process. Design/methodology/approach The authors critically analyze four case examples that used LSS projects, to demonstrate the approach, benefits, success factors and lessons learnt.

An assessment of quality costs within electronic adverse incident reporting and recording systems: a case study.

Purpose: There are three main objectives of the research presented in this paper: to examine the challenges of using an electronic adverse incident recording and reporting system; to assess the method of using a prevention appraisal and failure model; and to identify the benefits of using quality costs in conjunction with incident reporting systems.

Design/methodology/approach: Action diary, documentation and triangulation are used to obtain an understanding of the challenges and critical success factors in using quality costing within an adverse incident recording and reporting system.

Findings: The paper provides healthcare professionals with the critical success factors for developing quality costing into an electronic adverse incident recording and reporting system.

Improving patient safety and quality: what are the challenges and gaps in introducing an integrated electronic adverse incident and recording system within health care industry?

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the challenges and gaps in using an electronic adverse incident recording and reporting system from a commercial supplier to an acute health care setting.

Design/methodology/approach: The paper used action diary, documentation and triangulation to obtain an understanding of the challenges and gaps.

Findings: The paper provides health care with further understanding of the complexity, challenges and gaps of using an electronic adverse incident recording system to improve patient safety.

Can Six Sigma be the "cure" for our "ailing" NHS?

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyse whether Six Sigma business strategy can be used to improve the financial and operational performance of the NHS. The paper will also look at some of the major challenges and barriers in the implementation of this powerful process improvement strategy within the healthcare sector.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper discusses whether Six Sigma DMAIC methodology can be a useful and disciplined approach to tackle process- and quality-related problems in the NHS.

Comparing public and private hospital care service quality in Turkey.

Purpose: The aim of this article is to examine the differences in service quality between public and private hospitals in Turkey.

Design/methodology/approach: This study applies the principles behind the SERVQUAL model and compares Turkey's public and private hospital care service quality. The study sample contains a total of 200 outpatients.

Applying Taguchi methods to health care.

Purpose: The aim of this article is to show how Taguchi methods can be applied to health care.

Design/methodology/approach: The quadratic loss function is at the heart of Taguchi methods. It is a powerful motivator for a quality strategy and can be used to adequately model the loss to society in health care.

Determining positivity of alcohol abuse by Taguchi methods.

Purpose: Aims to establish the critical score and screening accuracy of the CAGE Questionnaire in three treatment settings--primary health care, walk-in (triage) clinic and the emergency room.

Design/methodology/approach: Taguchi methods are applied to three screens of the CAGE questionnaire.

Findings: Analysis of the sensitivity and specificity data of three CAGE screens by leveling factor (p'), signal-to-noise ratios (S/N, SS/N) and their dependent relation resulted in critical CAGE scores of 1, 1 and 2; and high screening accuracy levels of 98.

Reassessment of the CAGE questionnaire by ROC/Taguchi methods.

Objectives: The clinical assessment efficiency of the CAGE questionnaire for alcohol abuse based on diagnostic accuracy has not been fully established to date because of the varied and inconclusive gold standards used as diagnostic criteria. CAGE has also been highlighted to miss almost half of the risk-drinkers due to the use of inadequetly set criteria for the positive recognition of alcohol abuse. This study aims to establish the diagnostic accuracy of CAGE at different treatment settings.

A simple, semi-prescriptive self-assessment model for TQM.

This article presents a simple, semi-prescriptive self-assessment model for use in industry as part of a continuous improvement program such as Total Quality Management (TQM). The process by which the model was constructed started with a review of the available literature in order to research TQM success factors. Next, postal surveys were conducted by sending questionnaires to the winning organisations of the Baldrige and European Quality Awards and to a preselected group of enterprising UK organisations.