Challenges and Recommendation of the Information Technologies Application in Hazardous Medical Waste Management amidst Pandemic Covid-19

Abstract

Handling of Covid-19 patients requires more medical equipment than normal conditions, increasing the amount of hazardous medical waste. The management of hazardous medical waste has many challenges; therefore, it needed a strategy to solve it using information technology. Based on a filter of 376 articles, this review adopted a Systematic Literature Review approach to evaluating the recent challenge and recommendation in the field of Hazardous Medical Waste Management amidst Covid-19. Through a four-phase workflow consisting of searching, screening, excluded, and included literature search, this study identified the most influential journals, scholars, and articles that have been influential in the domain of Hazardous Medical Waste Management. These literature review results are four challenges in Hazardous Medical Waste Management, including Regulation, Technology, Financial and Awareness. The other finding is IT application recommendations such as IoT, Big Data, DSS, AI and GIS. By providing the latest research about the challenges and recommendations in the domain of Hazardous Medical Waste Management amidst Covid-19, the paper serves as a preliminary recommendation for practitioners and researchers to link current research to future trends.