Emerging Technologies and Innovation: Healthcare Robotics Analysis

This report presents an annotated bibliography on the topic of emerging technologies and innovation, specifically focusing on healthcare robotics. It includes summaries and annotations of ten research articles, covering various aspects such as the attitudes towards healthcare robots in retirement villages, the application of robots in health and social care, determinants of home healthcare robot adoption, and the impact of robotics on employment and motivation within the healthcare sector. The bibliography also explores ethical considerations, value co-creation and co-destruction in elderly care networks, and the use of assistive robots for the elderly, including innovative tools for gathering health-relevant data. The annotations highlight key findings, methodologies, and conclusions from each article, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in this rapidly evolving field, emphasizing the potential benefits and challenges associated with the integration of robotics into healthcare settings. The articles discuss various socio-technical factors, ethical concerns, and the need for effective integration strategies to maximize the benefits of robotic applications in healthcare.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
AND INNOVATION

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Annotated bibliography- .............................................................................................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................5
Self evaluation.............................................................................................................................5

TASK 1
Annotated bibliography-
Article 1-
Citation 1. Broadbent, E., & et.al., (2012). Attitudes
towards health‐care robots in a retirement
village. Australasian journal on ageing. 31(2).
pp.115-120.
summary Healthcare robots are needed to bring
developed in manner to assist older people to
maintain the independence. Therefore, health
care robots were acceptable and feasible and
also determine that how its impact the quality
of life, medical adherence and depression.
Therefore, it can be stated that robots reminded
people in terms to take medication, to provide
memory games, Skype calls and blood pressure
treatment. Hence, it also stated that there were
only few problems with the function of robot
advancement.
Annotation Therefore, they do not have significant impact
on the term s as adherence, depression and
quality of life. It is concept that is very
feasible, acceptable, improvements in the
reliability and functionality can enhance the
efficacy. Thus, there participation can aids to
reduce time over the each thing.
Article 2-
Citation 2. Dahl, T. & Boulos, M., 2014. Robots in
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health and social care: A complementary
technology to home care and
telehealthcare?. Robotics. 3(1). pp.1-21.
summary Health care and social care provide carefully
hand picked examples in order to undertake the
research. Thus, main ingredients for the
success of application as well as issues
surrounding their application will be inclusive
of the sustainability in non technical
environments, safety and acceptance, cost
effectiveness and ethical consideration.
Annotation However, this articles stated that couple of
emerging development and promising
application plays the crucial role in the future.
Article 3.
Citation Alaiad, A. & Zhou, L., 2014. The determinants
of home healthcare robots adoption: An
empirical investigation. International journal
of medical informatics. 83(11). pp.825-840.
Summary Healthcare robots promise to make the clinical
information avail at the right place and time.
Also, it has been reported that robotics
adoption aids to reduction in error and
enhancing safety and quality. Therefore,
research on healthcare robots put their major
consideration over the aims to understand the
determinants of home healthcare robots
adoption with help of application of technical
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acceptance theories.
Conclusion Hence, it can be stated that the healthcare
robots is function of social influence, trust,
expectancy of performance, ethical concern
and facilitating the conditions. Therefore, it
can be stated that socio-technical factors plays
crucial role in order to explain adoption
intention for home healthcare robots.
Article 4.
Annotation Omachonu, V.K. & Einspruch, N.G., 2010.
Innovation in healthcare delivery systems: a
conceptual framework. The Innovation
Journal: The Public Sector Innovation
Journal. 15(1). pp.1-20.
Summary Healthcare industry has experienced wide
range proliferation of innovations that aimed in
order to enhancing life expectancy, quality of
life and effectiveness in cost within healthcare
system. Therefore, innovation in health care
programs plays vital role and it is one of the
driving force in research and it is conceptual
framework that provides researcher the
foundation of the topic. It is paper that is
begins with the definition of healthcare
innovation and also understanding that how
innovation can occur in healthcare.
Conclusion Thus, health care policy makers and
practitioners works as evaluate, recognize,
adopt and encourage services that all gives'
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priority to truly enhanced value of the
healthcare enterprise.
5.
Citation Qureshi, M.O. & Syed, R.S., 2014. The impact
of robotics on employment and motivation of
employees in the service sector, with special
reference to health care. Safety and health at
work. 5(4). pp.198-202.
Summary As per the above article it has been stated that
economy of the health service sector is being
lifted by the possible benefits. Therefore, it is
possible to find out the advantages and
limitation associated with robotics so that
positivist can be capitalized, established and
can be developed for the employing and
motivating the employees in the health care
sector.This articles are based on the
exploratory research and also based on
secondary data.
Annotation Therefore, information has been collected with
help of data and statistics, newspapers,
magazines and websites of health care
providers. It is articles that is about the
replacing the employees of the enterprise with
the robots and it is inevitable choice for
enterprise in the service sector.
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Article 6.
Citation Cresswell, K., Cunningham-Burley, S. &
Sheikh, A., 2018. Health Care Robotics:
Qualitative Exploration of Key Challenges and
Future Directions. Journal of medical Internet
research. 20(7). p.e10410.
Summary According to the above articles it has been
stated that emergence of robotics has
transforming the industries all around the
world. Therefore, it can be stated that Robot
technical advancement are continually
evolving all around the world. Thus, the main
goal of the research is to understand the
emerging role of robotics in the context of
health and social care. It is very helpful in
order to maximize the benefits that is related
with the future challenges to maximize the
benefits associated with robotics and various
convergent technologies.
Annotation In these articles, 21 interviews has been
conducted and there are various significant
opportunities that relates with improving the
safety, quality and efficiency of health care
with the help of robotics. There are mainly 4
major barriers as-
 No clear pull from patients and
professional.
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 Disruption of work that is distributed
and organized.
 Appearances of robots that is mainly
associated with expectation and
concern.
 Ethical and legal challenges that
requires flexible and ethical
frameworks.
Hence, it has been stated that sociot-echnical
challenges relates with effective integration of
robotic application in health care setting.
Article 7.
Citation Čaić, M., Odekerken-Schröder, G. & Mahr, D.,
2018. Service robots: value co-creation and co-
destruction in elderly care networks. Journal of
Service Management. 29(2). pp.178-205.
Summary In above article, it has been stated that the
main aim of these articles was to investigate te
potential roles in terms to service of robots. It
is mainly related with the defining the robot
roles as per the value co-creating and
destroying potential for elderly user. It is study
that aids to identify the six roles of the socially
assists robots in elderly person value network.
Annotation Therefore, the function of robots is based on
terms as safeguarding, social contact and
cognitive support. By the use of these articles it
has clearly notable exception in terms to
inclusion of socially assists robots in the value
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networks.
Article 8.
Citation
Poulsen, A., & Burmeister, O.K., 2019.
Overcoming carer shortages with care robots:
Dynamic value trade-offs in run-
time. Australasian Journal of Information
Systems.
Summay As per the above stated articles it has clearly
stated that Rising in the elderly population and
to diminishing the number of family and
professional carers led to calls for the
intervention of care of the robots. However, it
can be stated that the quality of care
determined by the designers for profit firms,
nursing code of practices ad sample groups etc.
Hence, it can be stated that care robot needs to
conduct the patients' interaction in appropriate
manner and it also leads to conduct the better
practices.
Annotation However, it can be stated that it is the study
that suggest putting the major significance over
the importance of, desire for and customized
robot delivered care. In these articles, it has
been clearly stated that if the Robot at
healthcare needs to make the good and
effective care patients relationship. Lastly, it
has been stated that it is the study that
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introduces the care robot framework.
Article 9.
Citation Vitanza, A., & et.al., 2019. Assistive Robots
for the Elderly: Innovative Tools to Gather
Health Relevant Data. In Data Science for
Healthcare. Springer, Cham.
Summary As per the above stated articles it has been
stated Robots plays the crucial role in terms to
healthcare digital revolution and it us
underway. Hence, it has been stated that
helpful robots can profoundly affect the way
healthcare is delivered to the patients. At
present, health and social care is using robotic
technologies and it can be used for physical
and cognitive rehabilitation, drug delivery,
patient management and surgery etc. They are
mainly used in terms to provide better and
effective care patients. Uses of patients are
mainly carried towards the area as range of
environments, schools, home and nursing
homes.
Annotations Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to
make investigation in terms to the health care
and well being domain. It is also helpful to
analyzed that robots plays one of the crucial
role in the today's environment.
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Artcile 10.
Citation Van Wynsberghe, A., 2016. Healthcare
robots: Ethics, design and implementation.
Routledge.
Summary As per the above article has stated that robot
technical advancement mainly deals with an
under-explored area of emerging technical
advancement in the health setting. Hence, the
role of care develops the value sensitive ethical
frameworks in order to provide the eventual
employment to the care robots. It is term that
mainly highlights the various kind of positive
and negative aspects that designed to use care
robots.
Annotation However, it can be stated that there are future
design that reinforcing the range of
disciplinary from the science and engineering.
Article 11.
Citation Boys, J.A., & et.al., 2016. Public perceptions
on robotic surgery, hospitals with robots, and
surgeons that use them. Surgical endoscopy.
30(4). pp.1310-1316.
Summary As per the above stated article it has been
stated that use of robotic assisted surgery has
been rapidly increasing at the wider level.
Although, the public perception about the uses
of robotic surgery is largely unknown.
Therefore, the main aim of this study is to put
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their depth insight in terms to the public
perception about the robotic surgery. However,
the hospital with robots can offered better
results to the patients.
Annotation However, it can be stated that to have the use
of robot in surgery indicates the need of
patients education. Hence, remote surgery
might allows skilled surgeons to do complex
procedure without need of the care.
Article 12.
Citation Jenkins, S. and Draper, H., 2015. Care,
monitoring, and companionship: Views on care
robots from older people and their
carers. International Journal of Social
Robotics, 7(5), pp.673-683.
summary The above article stated that the main purpose
of this study is to investigate the potential roles
for the service robots. It is very helpful
procedures that defines the robot roles as per
the network of the users. This is article that is
discussing about the ethical issues relevant to
the use of social robots and how it provides
care to the older people in homes, drawing etc.
This research has collected with the use of
qualitative data and this aids to define the
depth description about the potential ethical
uses of the robots in the health and social care.
Annotation However, it has been clearly stated that this is
the article that aids to define the role of social
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care robot as a companion to the older people.
Article 13.
Citation Turja, T., Rantanen, T. & Oksanen, A., 2017.
Robot use self-efficacy in healthcare work
(RUSH): development and validation of a new
measure. AI & SOCIETY, pp.1-7.
Summary According to the above article, it has been
clearly stated that this study is to develop the
measure of robot in terms to use self efficacy
in healthcare work. Therefore, the article
provides the technical advancement specific
self efficacy and aids to discus the
development and implementation of workers in
terms to robots.
Annotation However, it has been stated that self efficacy
and interest in technical tools aids to include
repeated employees surveys.
TASK 2
Self evaluation
I have conducted this research and it also aids to have reduction in terms to the social
care cost by enabling the older people to stay in homes for longer rather than preventing
hospitalization and keeping people healthier for long run. I must say replacing the employees of
health care entities with robots also aids to have reduction in the staffing cost by undertaking
automating the greater number of the task.
It provides the social interaction to combat social isolation and loneliness suffered by
patients from the chronic illness. However, it can be true to said that building robots aids to care
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for growing aging population. I have seen that robots have the ability to tackle the social
isolation and this have a serious impact on physical and mental health of an individual.
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