Meri Ahmed, Dauwed Mohammed, Kareem Haitham Mohsin, Hasan Mohammad Khatim
Department of Medical Instrumentation Techniques Engineering, Al-Hussain University College, Karbala, 56001 Iraq.
Department of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, 10022 Iraq.
Wirel Pers Commun. 2023 Mar 16:1-17. doi: 10.1007/s11277-023-10358-8.
A serious effect on people's life, social communication, and surely on medical staff who were forced to monitor their patients' status remotely relying on the available technologies to avoid potential infections and as a result reducing the workload in hospitals. this research tried to investigate the readiness level of healthcare professionals in both public and private Iraqi hospitals to utilize IoT technology in detecting, tracking, and treating 2019-nCoV pandemic, as well as reducing the direct contact between medical staff and patients with other diseases that can be monitored remotely.A cross-sectional descriptive research via online distributed questionnaire, the sample consisted of 113 physicians and 99 pharmacists from three public and two private hospitals who randomly selected by simple random sampling. The 212 responses were deeply analyzed descriptively using frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviation.The results confirmed that the IoT technology can facilitate patient follow-up by enabling rapid communication between medical staff and patient relatives. Additionally, remote monitoring techniques can measure and treat 2019-nCoV, reducing direct contact by decreasing the workload in healthcare industries. This paper adds to the current healthcare technology literature in Iraq and middle east region an evidence of the readiness to implement IoT technology as an essential technique. Practically, it is strongly advised that healthcare policymakers should implement IoT technology nationwide especially when it comes to safe their employees' life.Iraqi medical staff are fully ready to adopt IoT technology as they became more digital minded after the 2019-nCoV crises and surely their knowledge and technical skills will be improved spontaneously based on diffusion of innovation perspective.
这对人们的生活、社会交往产生了严重影响，对医护人员而言更是如此，他们被迫依靠现有技术远程监测患者状况，以避免潜在感染，从而减轻医院的工作量。本研究试图调查伊拉克公立和私立医院的医护人员利用物联网技术检测、追踪和治疗2019新型冠状病毒疫情的准备程度，以及减少医护人员与其他可远程监测疾病患者之间的直接接触情况。通过在线发放问卷进行横断面描述性研究，样本由来自三家公立医院和两家私立医院的113名医生和99名药剂师组成，他们通过简单随机抽样随机选取。使用频率、百分比、均值和标准差对212份回复进行了深入的描述性分析。结果证实，物联网技术可通过实现医护人员与患者亲属之间的快速沟通来促进患者随访。此外，远程监测技术可对2019新型冠状病毒进行测量和治疗，通过减少医疗行业的工作量来减少直接接触。本文为伊拉克和中东地区当前的医疗技术文献增添了关于准备好将物联网技术作为一项关键技术实施的证据。实际上，强烈建议医疗政策制定者在全国范围内实施物联网技术，尤其是在保障员工生命安全方面。伊拉克医护人员完全准备好采用物联网技术，因为在2019新型冠状病毒危机之后他们变得更具数字思维，而且从创新扩散的角度来看，他们的知识和技术技能肯定会自发提高。
