Naslov
ICT-enabled healthcare and economic evaluations: a bibliometric analysis

Autori
Srok, Antonija ; Došenović Bonča, Petra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
International Scientific Conference “Dealing with Uncertainty” Economics of Digital Transformation (EDT) 2022 / - Opatija, 2022, 29-29

Skup
5th International Scientific Conference Economics of Digital Transformation DIGITOMIC (EDT 2022)

Mjesto i datum
Opatija, Croatia, 23.06.2022. - 25.06.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
ICT-enabled healthcare services, terminology, economic evaluations, bibliometric analysis

Sažetak
The adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care received major encouragement during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the one hand, barriers such as high cost of technology or inconsistent cost-effectiveness results were set aside to assure remote healthcare delivery and enable access to care in the wake of social distancing. On the other hand, however, more rigorous analyses of benefits and economic justification of such healthcare delivery was also incentivized. The objective of this paper is therefore to identify the key terms used to describe ICT-enabled healthcare services and to assess the latest research that addresses them. The paper also focuses on the developments in the field of economic evaluations of ICT-enabled health services. The research methods used in this work combine bibliometric methods and appropriate visualization tools to analyze relevant publications from the Web of Science Core Collection database, supplemented with a standard literature review. The bibliometric analysis revealed that the number of publications on ICT- enabled health services has steadily increased over the past 20 years, with a significant increase in 2020. Moreover, the number of publications on ICT- enabled health services in 2021 more than doubled compared to 2019, and the increase was particularly high for telemedicine services. The number of publications on economic evaluations of such services also increased. Furthermore, key research areas, journals, publications and author keywords were identified. Development and implementation of beneficial ICT- enabled healthcare services is proving to be a contemporary and compelling issue. Efforts should be made to replace traditional, in-person, on-site healthcare with effective ICT-enabled healthcare, which could prove to be the new mainstream.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti

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