A group decision-making approach for exploring trends in the development of the healthcare industry in Taiwan

2021
The increased awareness of the importance of global healthcare which has formed an inseparable relationship with the quality of human life has led researchers to pay attention to trends in the development of the healthcare industry. This study identifies eight potential development trends designed to provide the healthcare industry with appropriate development strategy recommendations. The modified Z-numbers decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (called the modified Z-DEMATEL) technique is adapted to construct the mutual influential relationships and prioritize these trends. The Z-number method optimizes the conventional fuzzy numbers and increases the reliability of expert evaluations to reflect the confidence of the evaluation environment under uncertainty. The modified Z-DEMATEL provides a complete linguistic evaluation and its membership functions, and generates a set of influence weights of the criteria. Real healthcare development trends in Taiwan are taken as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. The results show that the internet of things and telemedicine are important future trends in Taiwan. This paper provides useful and reliable management suggestions to help the healthcare industry promote innovative technologies.
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
卷号:141
ISSN:0167-9236
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2021
学科领域
循证管理学
国家
中国台湾
语种
英语
DOI
10.1016/j.dss.2020.113447
其他关键词
MODEL; SELECTION; SUPPORT; SYSTEM
EISSN
1873-5797
被引频次(WOS)
12
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
Central Taiwan University Science & Technology National Taipei University of Technology Chaoyang University of Technology National Taipei University of Technology
关键词
Healthcare industry Group decision Z numbers DEMATEL