Abstract
In context of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, smart hospitals’ contributions to pre-medical, remote diagnosis, and social distancing has been further vetted. Smart hospital management evolves with new technology and knowledge management, which needs an evaluation system to prioritize its associated criteria and sub-criteria. The global effect of the COVID-19 pandemic further necessitates a comprehensive research of smart hospital management. This paper will utilize Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) within Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) to establish a smart hospital evaluation system with evaluation criteria and sub-criteria, which were then further prioritized and mapped to BIM-related alternatives to inform asset information management (AIM) practices. This context of this study included the expert opinions of six professionals in the smart hospital field and collected 113 responses from hospital-related personnel. The results indicated that functionalities connected to end users are critical, in particular IoT’s Network Core Functionalities, AI’s Deep Learning and CPS’s Special Network Technologies. Furthermore, BIM’s capability to contribute to the lifecycle management of assets can relate and contribute to the asset-intensive physical criteria of smart hospitals, in particular IoT, service technology innovations and their sub-criteria.
Highlights
The smart hospital has been an essential part of the healthcare 4.0 trend [1]
This extraordinary time of COVID-19 calls for the adoption of a more complete evaluation system for smart hospital management and building up the infrastructure
This paper aims to answer the following research questions: (a)
Summary
The smart hospital has been an essential part of the healthcare 4.0 trend [1]. In addition to being a key domain in the whole healthcare ecosystem, the smart hospital’s evolution both drives and is affected by the healthcare economy and policy. Healthcare 4.0 is a specific up and coming trend within Industry 4.0; it is a key component that Society 5.0 depends on [2,3,4]. The traditional hospitals’ physical building structures have imposed limitations such as difficulty to ensure or convert to negative pressure inpatient isolation wards, and up-to-date medical information systems to address the needs of special pandemic patients [5]. This extraordinary time of COVID-19 calls for the adoption of a more complete evaluation system for smart hospital management and building up the infrastructure
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