Development of Digital Transformation in Raising the Efficiency of Workers in Medical Devices: is Digital Transformation More Effective? – Cross-Sectional Study Medical Equipment Technology Department, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Background: Digital transformation is a process that aims to improve an entity by causing material changes to its properties through combinations of information, computing, communication, and connectivity technologies. DT has an impact on a variety of companies, including the purchase of digital assets, the creation of digital growth strategies, and the modification of internal organizational structures.

Aim of study: This cross-sectional study navigates in the research that evaluate the level of raising in efficiency of performance of workers in medical devices.

Methodology: This cross-sectional study collected data in the form of digital and paper questionnaires and then analyze these data to know if the hypothesis of research accepted or rejected via this descriptive analysis. The target number of questionnaires are 300 digital questionnaire, and 100 paper questionnaire and target participants are those work with medical device to answer the questions.

Result: the results showed that Most had bachelor, 24% diploma, and 8% master degree, and most had experience years less than 5 years.Virtual Reality for Patient Treatment was ranked 7.5%, with Big Data analysis ranked 3.8%, followed by Medical Records (1.9%). The most agreement items were (We have a record of patient visits to follow up on their visits to hospital) and (We use digital analysis tool to make better operational decisions). Results showed the efficiency of workers level was high with mean = 4.17.

Conclusion: This study demonstrates that types of digital transformation have an impact on the healthcare business and predict how they will improve the productivity of medical device professionals.