A Review on SCADA for Healthcare Systems

Abstract

Healthcare systems continue to experience an increased level of technological innovation due to the desire to provide quality services for patients and improve decision-making of health experts. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, big data, and blockchain are some of these novel solutions being introduced. This study explores the state of research of one of such innovations in healthcare which is known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Despite SCADA systems being widely known in the manufacturing and production spheres, they have a gradual level of adoption in healthcare organizational systems. The study adopts a computational literature review method to extract knowledge from literature from prominent sources with publications discussing the implementation of SCADA systems in healthcare. Our study revealed that SCADA systems research with respect to their deployments in healthcare mainly focused on cyber security. The study presents a snapshot of research on SCADA systems in healthcare and provides research trajectories to guide future research.