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Review
. 2022 Mar 14;15(6):2140.
doi: 10.3390/ma15062140.

Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation in Healthcare

Vladimir V Popov  1   2 , Elena V Kudryavtseva  3 , Nirmal Kumar Katiyar  4 , Andrei Shishkin  5 , Stepan I Stepanov  2 , Saurav Goel  4   6
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Review

Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation in Healthcare

Vladimir V Popov et al. Materials (Basel). .

Abstract

Industry 4.0 in healthcare involves use of a wide range of modern technologies including digitisation, artificial intelligence, user response data (ergonomics), human psychology, the Internet of Things, machine learning, big data mining, and augmented reality to name a few. The healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift thanks to Industry 4.0, which provides better user comfort through proactive intervention in early detection and treatment of various diseases. The sector is now ready to make its next move towards Industry 5.0, but certain aspects that motivated this review paper need further consideration. As a fruitful outcome of this review, we surveyed modern trends in this arena of research and summarised the intricacies of new features to guide and prepare the sector for an Industry 5.0-ready healthcare system.

Keywords: Industry 4.0; Internet of Things; big data; digitalisation; healthcare.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Evolution of industrial developments over time.
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Figure 2
Building blocks of an Industry 4.0 system.
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Leading position of IoT in Industry 4.0 structure [80].
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Figure 4
Digitalisation in medicine—main technologies.
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Figure 5
Example of body part surrogate for VRE. Photo courtesy of Prof. A. Koptyug, SportsTech Research Center, Mid Sweden University, Sweden.
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