Integration Health 4.0 with Industry 4.0

Abstract

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is a quite new respiratory disease that has widely spread throughout the world. The fourth industrial revolution has developed and reshaped many markets around the world at an unprecedented rate. Many new technologies and services improve people's lives to meet their needs and they can implement and manage them remotely. Since the Industry 4.0 has been impacting almost all industries, healthcare managers should prepare their organization very well including to manage covid-19 pandemic.

Aim: The aim of this study is to link Industry 4.0 and Health 4.0 in perspective of COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Content analysis and literature review method were used to link Industry 4.0 and Health 4.0

Results: It is pointed out that technology will improve healthcare quality for patients and their awareness. Therefore, a key factor is how to design such a systems using the virtual reality component of Industry 4.0.

Conclusions: healthcare organization, private and public medical institutions, and their managers need to discuss and integrate the industry 4.0 components with Health 4.0 systems. Future researches and developments may analyze the solutions how these components can be translated into healthcare organizations.