A research on organizational change in health care business in the context of Industry 4.0

The main purpose of this research is to understand how industry 4.0 technologies will affect organizational change in healthcare enterprises. Systematic grounded theory pattern was used in the research. Within the framework of the sampling determined using the theoretical sampling method, 27 private health care establishments in the East Marmara region were visited and 32 interviews with senior health managers were analyzed. In-depth unstructured interview technique was used as the data collection method. The collected data were analyzed by open coding, axis coding and selective coding methods, respectively, in accordance with the systematic grounded theory methodology. As a result of the analysis, it was revealed that 88 codes obtained were grouped under 10 categories and these categories constituted 5 basic themes. When the relationship between the themes obtained is examined, it is seen that industry 4.0 technologies bring digital transformation and flexible organizational structures in private healthcare enterprises, these two situations with technological negativities cause a number of changes in the provision of health services and these changes are seems to improve healthcare services with the dimensions of quality of the service provided and the emergence of new markets.