Many innovative technologies have been successfully adopted in logistics and supply chain
management processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs or enhance communication. In …

Under the background of the aging population and the improvement of people's quality of
life, the demand for household medical devices is expanding, which has huge market …

During an emergency, there are many activities in a pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC)
which are rendered ineffective. This study aims to propose a holistic approach for Big Data …

There is an increasing interest in product recovery, closed-loop supply chains, and reverse
logistics (RL) for mitigating environmental impairment. Although RL is becoming a …

The unsustainable take-make-dispose linear economy prevalent in healthcare contributes
4.4% to global Greenhouse Gas emissions. A popular but not yet widely-embraced solution …

Following the spread of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, the role of digital technologies in
manufacturing, especially in production and industrial logistics processes, has become …

Public sector state funded organisations were initially constructed to deliver much needed
services to their immediate community. Designed to meet the needs of societies and …

We propose a method to collect data on user requirements of medical equipment shared by
different users and services, relate those requirements with the equipment's technical …

Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in
healthcare systems, through the development of technological ecosystems known as …

This article consists of a scoping review completed to describe the impacts of refurbished
hearing aids (HAs) for people with hearing loss, and to identify existing HA refurbishing …