How can health professionals contribute to the internet of things body of knowledge. A phenomenography study
| Published date | 13 May 2019 |
| Pages | 229-240 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/VJIKMS-10-2018-0091 |
| Date | 13 May 2019 |
| Author | Mehdi Dadkhah,Mohammad Lagzian,Gabriele Santoro |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Knowledge management,Knowledge management systems |
How can health professionals
contribute to the internet of things
body of knowledge
A phenomenography study
Mehdi Dadkhah and Mohammad Lagzian
Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences,
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, and
Gabriele Santoro
Universita degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
Abstract
Purpose –Internet of Things (IoT) as the new technological paradigm has found many applications in
different domains. Nowadays, more than 30,000 records related to IoT research can be accessed in Scopus
(Scopus.com).Health care is the one of domains which benefits from IoT. However, observations indicatethat
most active researchersin this area are technical people not health professionals.The purpose of this paper is
to understandhow health professionals can contribute to the IoT bodyof knowledge.
Design/methodology/approach –IoT professionals are asked to provide their views regarding
researchconcerns, and the collected data are analyzed by phenomenography researchmethodology.
Findings –Findings indicate that health professionals can contribute through providing information,
requirementor standards for developing IoT systems or devices. They can alsointroduce new applications or
domainsfor which IoT is fit.
Originality/value –This paper tries to fill the gap concerning the lack of attention to undertaking IoT-
related research from healthprofessionals’side and highlights ways that healthprofessionals can contribute
IoT body of knowledge.
Keywords Qualitative research, Perception, Internet of things, IoT and health professional,
IoT body of knowledge, IoT in health
Paper type Research paper
1. Introduction
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technological paradigm which has found many
applications in different domains (Atzori et al.,2010). This term has been coined by Kevin
Ashton in 1999 at Procter and Gamble about benefits which radio-frequency identification
provides for supply chain (Ashton, 2009). IoT integrates sensors, objects and smart nodes
that are able to communicatewith each other in real time without human intervention(Conti
et al.,2018). IoT has been widely consideredand applied in various fields such as innovation
management (Santoro et al., 2018), cyber-physical systems (Song et al.,2016), health sector
(Islam et al.,2015) and industrial control (Jeschke et al., 2017).
The authors thank Dr Adriana Marcela Vega, District University –Francisco Jose de Caldas, Bogotá –
Colombia, and Dr Rajkumar Buyya, CLOUDS Lab, School of Computing and Information Systems,
University of Melbourne, Australia, for their helps during this research.
IoT body of
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Received21 October 2018
Revised20 January 2019
Accepted30 January 2019
VINEJournal of Information and
KnowledgeManagement Systems
Vol.49 No. 2, 2019
pp. 229-240
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2059-5891
DOI 10.1108/VJIKMS-10-2018-0091
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