Sustainable Smart Healthcare Applications: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tin Chih Toly Chen*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages65-92
Number of pages28
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NameSpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
VolumePart F1237
ISSN (Print)2191-530X
ISSN (Electronic)2191-5318

Keywords

  • COVID-19 pandemic
  • Global event
  • Objective and subjective perspectives
  • Smart healthcare application
  • Sustainability

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