TY - CHAP
T1 - Sustainable Smart Healthcare Applications
T2 - Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Chen, Tin Chih Toly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - One of the lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that user motivation and acceptance of smart healthcare applications have varied. This explains why some smart healthcare applications can be sustained while others cannot. Various considerations leading to this discrepancy are summarized. Additionally, global events during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the China trade war, severe delays and congestion at ports and terminals due to COVID-19, global semiconductor chip shortages, inflation, and the Ukraine–Russia war, have also impacted the sustainability of smart healthcare applications. To address this issue, the impact of these global events on the sustainability of smart healthcare applications is discussed. As a result, the sustainability of smart healthcare applications needs to be reassessed from objective and subjective perspectives based on the evidence gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - One of the lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is that user motivation and acceptance of smart healthcare applications have varied. This explains why some smart healthcare applications can be sustained while others cannot. Various considerations leading to this discrepancy are summarized. Additionally, global events during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the China trade war, severe delays and congestion at ports and terminals due to COVID-19, global semiconductor chip shortages, inflation, and the Ukraine–Russia war, have also impacted the sustainability of smart healthcare applications. To address this issue, the impact of these global events on the sustainability of smart healthcare applications is discussed. As a result, the sustainability of smart healthcare applications needs to be reassessed from objective and subjective perspectives based on the evidence gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - Global event
KW - Objective and subjective perspectives
KW - Smart healthcare application
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85168704243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-37146-2_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-37146-2_4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85168704243
T3 - SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
SP - 65
EP - 92
BT - SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -