Robotics Utilization for Healthcare Digitization in Global COVID-19 Management

Zeashan Hameed Khan, Afifa Siddique and Chang Won Lee
Additional contact information
Zeashan Hameed Khan: Department of Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering, Air University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Afifa Siddique: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Chang Won Lee: Healthcare MBA Track & School of Business, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-21

Abstract: This paper describes the evolving role of robotics in healthcare and allied areas with special concerns relating to the management and control of the spread of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The prime utilization of such robots is to minimize person-to-person contact and to ensure cleaning, sterilization and support in hospitals and similar facilities such as quarantine. This will result in minimizing the life threat to medical staff and doctors taking an active role in the management of theCOVID-19 pandemic. The intention of the present research is to highlight the importance of medical robotics in general and then to connect its utilization with the perspective of COVID-19 management so that the hospital management can direct themselves to maximize the use of medical robots for various medical procedures. This is despite the popularity of telemedicine, which is also effective in similar situations. In essence, the recent achievement of the Korean and Chinese health sectors in obtaining active control of the COVID-19 pandemic was not possible without the use of state of the art medical technology.

Keywords: medical robots; COVID-19; healthcare digitization; coronavirus pandemic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/11/3819/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/11/3819/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:11:p:3819-:d:363972

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().