Accelerating Strategic Changes for Digital Transformation in the Healthcare Industry

Patricia de Pablos is a Professor of Business Administration at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Her field of research focuses on knowledge management, healthcare sector, innovation, information technologies and technological disruption. She has contributed to numerous academic publications. She has wide editorial experience in journals, books and book series. She serves as Editor in Chief of International Journal of Asian Business and Information and Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. Dr. Xi Zhang’s research interests are knowledge management systems, digital transformation, and people analytics. He has published several papers in international journals such as Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of MIS, CHB, IEEE TEM, IEEE TKDE, etc. He also served as editorial board of IJABIM, IJSWIS, JMSE and JSTPM.

• Section I. The impact of covid-19 in healthcare industry: Challenges and trends1. Impact of Covid-19 on healthcare in Qatar:  Initiation and operations of the Urgent Consultation Centre (UCC) hotline, virtual transformation of healthcare services, and accelerated data sharing solutions - Challenges and opportunities2. Challenges, innovation opportunities and lessons learned from a prolonged organisational crisis: a case exemplar of the National Health Service Wales 3. Accelerating Pathology Education through Virtual Learning to Address Global Health NeedsSection II. Digital transformation of healthcare services4. Mobile Health Apps: User's Perception Towards m-Health Apps and Their Adoption Intentions 5. Balancing Patient empowerment and online security considerations from impact of Social Media Promotion of Prescription Drugs: Physician Perception 6. Online health communication during COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of hospitals with social media presence in India 7. Development and usability testing of an air disinfection robot to reduce air clearance times following aerosol generating procedures (AGPs)Section III. AI and Internet of the Things in healthcare industry8. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare 9. Artificial Intelligence based Brain Hemorrhage Detection 10. A systems approach to implementing ethics in a COVID-19 AI application: a qualitative study11. Automation of depression detection in texts to identify possible cases during COVID-19 pandemic 12. Review of Using Machine Learning in Secure IoT HealthcareSection IV. Data sharing for accelerating solutions in healthcare industry13. Health infrastructure, Data sharing and Strategic Changes for Innovative Transformation of Health Services: Evolution of Call Center Patient Appointment Registration for Comprehensive Urology Services in Qatar 14. Heterogeneous Cardiological Data Communication in Telecardiology with Music-Key Generation SchemeSection V. Health emergency preparedness and response15. Early warning for emerging infectious disease outbreaks- Digital disease surveillance for public health preparedness and responseSection VI. Conclusions and implications for healthcare research agenda and policy makers16. Digital Health Policies and Participation for Digital Transformation in the German-speaking Area – A Critical Approach 17. Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges of Digital Mental Health Care