PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jordi Rovira-Simón
AU  - Marc Sales-i-Coll
AU  - Patricia Pozo-Rosich
AU  - Darren Gates
AU  - Carol Patt
AU  - Iain Hennessey
AU  - Lisa Emery
AU  - Juan Antonio Hueto-Madrid
AU  - Marta Carbonell-Cobo
AU  - Francesc Garcia-Cuyàs
AU  - Monica Moz
AU  - Zafar Chaudry
AU  - Genevieve Shaw
TI  - Introduction to the cognitive hospital
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2021-0016
DP  - 2022 Mar 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 34--40
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/1/34.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/1/34.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2022 Mar 01; 9
AB  - The third industrial revolution has radically impacted the transformation of hospitals. Through the adoption of key digital technologies, hospitals have become more accessible, flexible, organised, responsive and able to deliver more personalised care. The digitalisation of patient health records, one of the most remarkable achievements to date in healthcare management, has enabled new opportunities, including the idea of hospitals evolving to become artificially intelligent. In parallel, the adoption of electronic and mobile internet technologies in hospitals has introduced new structural concepts, seeing a variety of terms blossom such as ‘smart’, ‘intelligent’, ‘green’ and ‘liquid’. Now in the early fourth industrial revolution, driven by AI and internet-of-things technologies, this article unveils a new concept adapted to the upcoming era.