Annotated Bibliography: Innovation of Technology in Healthcare Sector

This annotated bibliography presents a compilation of research articles focusing on the role of innovation and technology in the healthcare sector. It covers various aspects such as the impact of information technology on healthcare services, the adoption of new technologies in healthcare organizations like the National Health Service (NHS), the involvement of patients and staff in the co-design of healthcare services, the use of modern monitoring systems, and the leveraging of health information technology to improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs. Each annotation summarizes the key findings of the respective article, highlights its strengths and limitations, and discusses its relevance to future research. The bibliography emphasizes the transformative potential of technology in enhancing healthcare delivery, improving patient outcomes, and fostering better communication and collaboration among stakeholders.

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1) Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Prabhu, J. and Vargo, S.L., 2015. Service innovation in the
digital age: key contributions and future directions. MIS quarterly, 39(1), pp.135-154.
The authors of the article have concentrated on the development of information
technology and its impact on the socio-economic sectors, like health care system, education and
so on.
Michael Barrett, Elizabeth Davidson, Jaideep Prabhu and Stephen. L. Vargo, the writers
of the article has concentrated on the development of the ICT, digitalization and networking
system in modern times. According to the researchers of this paper, innovation of the
information technologies has completely modified the health care system. Adoption of these
modern information techniques in the health care organizations has increased the effectiveness of
the health care products and services. The researchers have stated that the new and modern
information technology has strengthened the flow of information in the healthcare sector, as
people from every part of the world can access information from the same network, so all the key
information related to treatment process is available for everyone. It has connected rural health
care system and urban health care system. Rural health care service providers now can easily get
along with the specialists of urban areas and enrich their knowledge about modern health care
systems. Health care service providers have become aware of the modern health care
technologies due to innovative information technologies. They can now a days easily connect
with foreign health care service providers and adopt their style working for the betterment of the
patient’s health.
This article is highly useful for the future researchers, as it has highlighted an important
aspect that is associated with innovation in healthcare system. The researchers of this paper have

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used sufficient secondary and primary resources to reach to the conclusion. These research
papers have supported the researchers to establish their arguments. However, in this scenario, it
must be highlighted that the researchers could analyze more articles and research papers before
reaching to the conclusion. At the same time, the researchers have not discussed about the
drawback of this modern information technologies. They have ignored the fact that technical
failure can affect the health care system of any organization in negative manner. This is one of
the major limitation of the article.
This article will assist this research paper by providing a vivid idea about the innovation
of modern technologies, which will lead the paper towards its desired success.
2) Page, T., 2014. Notions of innovation in healthcare services and products. International
Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 8(3), pp.217-231.
As, National Health Service (NHS) is considered as one of the most efficient health care
center of the world, the researchers have concentrated on this centre to analyze the impact of
innovation on its services.
The author has presented various definitions of innovation in this paper to provide a vivid
idea about it. It has analyzed the use of overall innovation and innovative ideas in health care
centers. According to the author, National Health Service is constantly on the press due to its
effective health care system. One of the main reasons for the growth of this organization is its
adoption style of new and innovative technologies. It has introduced their patients with new style
of heath care. It has adopted some revolutionary technologies, such as wireless pacemaker, the
balancing technology, fiesta Flamingo Crutches and so on. This has given an immense
opportunity to the patients to live a normal life. People who are suffering from diseases like heart

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problems, spondylosis and so on they can walk towards a normal life due to these innovation.
Earlier many people used to die due to heart issues. However, these modern equipments has
changed the way of life of these patients.
The writer has left no stone unturned to make his research paper a successful one. The
article is supported by both primary and secondary research. Hence, it hardly preserves any
loopholes. Though, some more resources can be used to reach to the conclusion, as it could
provide more clear view of the subject. Thus, it can be understood that this paper is highly
efficient for the future researchers and it has discussed about many invention of modern science.
The research conducted by Page will be helpful for this research paper, as it will provide
a clear idea about modern technologies of health care system. Thus, this will enrich the work by
providing sufficient information about modern innovations.
3) Robert, G., Cornwell, J., Locock, L., Purushotham, A., Sturmey, G. and Gager, M.,
2015. Patients and staff as codesigners of healthcare services. Bmj, 350, p.g7714.
As patients and patient’s family are known as the key stakeholder of the health care
system, it is important for the service providers to maintain healthy relation with them.
Innovative technologies have helped the service providers to build a strong relation with the
patients. By using the modern communication technologies has brought revolution in the health
care system, as it has become easier for the patient’s family to obtain important information from
the service providers. It provides insight of treatment process to the patients, which has helped
the organizations to earn respect from the society. Moreover, it has improved the experience of
the patients about the treatment procedure in significant manner.

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This article is designed by conducting secondary and primary research, which has
strengthened the work of the researchers. However, this needs to be mentioned in this scenario,
that the researcher could use more variety of samples while gathering information from the
primary sources for designing the research paper. This limitation of samples has restricted the
development of the work to some extent, as the writers have failed to highlight the different
perspectives in the research paper. On the other hand, the researchers have failed to highlight the
negative impact of modern communication system in their research paper, such as- lack of
privacy. This is another major limitation of the research paper.
However, this paper has introduced the world with a new aspect of health care system
that is involvement of modern communication system in the health care system, as it was not
clear for everyone that how modern communication system can improve the service quality of
the health care system. Moreover, it has analyzed that how the innovation has changed the
relation of the health care system stakeholders since past few years through effective
communication. Thus, it will be helpful for the future research work.
4) Patil, A. and Suralkar, S.R., 2018. SMART HEALTHCARE MONITORING SYSTEM
USING RASPBERRY PI. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH, 7(2).
New invention of modern monitoring machines in the health care system has secured the
life of the patients significantly. It has been highlighted in this article.
The writers have highlighted the innovation of modern machineries, like temperature
monitoring system, heart rate measurement system, ECG system, Epic sensor and so on. The
writers have analyzed how the invention of these equipments has helped the health care service

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providers to monitor the movement of every organ of human body in every second. They have
stated that the LCD displays and modern technologies of these equipments have made them more
than efficient to provide high quality service to the patients. It has provided a sigh of relief to the
patient’s family. They can rely on the medical science completely due to the innovations of such
machines.
The writers have highlighted many important aspects of modern heath care system
through this research paper. Although there is no such limitation in the paper, the writers can
reach out to more secondary sources to gather more relevant information related to the topic.
This could enrich the research paper more. Innovation of these modern equipments has increased
the cost of treatment process, which has become unaffordable for many patients. This aspect has
not been presented in the paper. This is a key limitation of the paper.
The research paper will be helpful for future research papers to understand that how
modern machineries has brought revolution in the medical history.
5) Sheikh, A., Sood, H.S. and Bates, D.W., 2015. Leveraging health information technology
to achieve the “triple aim” of healthcare reform. Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association, 22(4), pp.849-856.
This article has concentrated on the innovation of Health Information Technology (HIT)
that has been built up for the betterment of the health care system and reduce the expenditure of
the treatment process.
In order to design the research paper, the researchers have taken 47 interviews.
According to the researchers, this is one of the major parts of modern digital infrastructure of
health care system. Earlier it was not possible for the health care service provider to provide high

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quality service due to lack of efficient techniques. Many health issues used to be neglected by the
professionals due to outdated techniques. However, the invention of Health Information
Technology has changed the scenario. According to the authors, it has reduced the cost of health
care service as well by designing modern and affordable health care tools.
However, there is a key limitation of the research paper, such as- the researchers have not
considered the response of all the interviewees, which has restricted the development of the
paper significantly. This could be avoided by focusing on the response of every participant. This
could provide more clarity to the paper.
However, in this scenario, it must be mentioned that although, there are some deficiency
in the research paper, there are many important information about modern heath care system
which will be beneficial for the future researcher to design their paper.

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Reference:
Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Prabhu, J. and Vargo, S.L., 2015. Service innovation in the digital age:
key contributions and future directions. MIS quarterly, 39(1), pp.135-154.
Page, T., 2014. Notions of innovation in healthcare services and products. International Journal
of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 8(3), pp.217-231.
Patil, A. and Suralkar, S.R., 2018. SMART HEALTHCARE MONITORING SYSTEM USING
RASPBERRY PI. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, 7(2).
Robert, G., Cornwell, J., Locock, L., Purushotham, A., Sturmey, G. and Gager, M., 2015.
Patients and staff as codesigners of healthcare services. Bmj, 350, p.g7714.
Sheikh, A., Sood, H.S. and Bates, D.W., 2015. Leveraging health information technology to
achieve the “triple aim” of healthcare reform. Journal of the American Medical Informatics
Association, 22(4), pp.849-856.