Table 4.
Open, axial and selective codes for Hospitals.
| Selective Code | Axial code | Symbolic Quotations from Interviews and Open Code |
|---|---|---|
| Hospitals | Diagnostic | Adoption of quantum computing can facilitate the hospital and healthcare eco-system to improve their efforts and eliminate the requirement of repetitive testing. This can further health care providers to benefit patients with reduced cost of treatment (R17). (Open Code: Avoid repetitive testing and reduce cost) |
| In the case of complex disease symptoms like cancer, it is necessary to find out a suitable radiation therapy that could be least harmful to human and can target only cancerous cells. The quantum computing can possibly simulate this at best (R11). (Open Code: Precise target for radiation) | ||
| Imaging | Image processing is one of the ways to collect the information from different departments to arrive on a conclusion. To evaluate the image from multiple viewpoints is difficult with naked eyes. Hence, quantum computing can bring out the information which is not possible otherwise through classical methods (R 7). (Open Code: Improved insights from quantum computing enabled imaging) | |
| In the big healthcare system like ours, where thousands of patients are processed on daily basis, it becomes extremely painful and inefficient for existing system to offer meaningful clues to the clinicians. Quantum computing can be helpful to enhance the speed and accuracy of imaging operations (R18). (Open Code: Speed and accuracy of imaging) | ||
| Radiotherapy | Quantum computing can offer large-scale optimization that can be solved within the clinically possible framework. The quantum computing can offer improved convergence rates and potentially offer effective treatment (R5). (Open Code: Effective treatment through radiations) | |
| In most of the surgeries, the radiation therapy acts as a primary modality. In most of the cases, the question remains the degree of radiations needed. Quantum computing advances the accuracy and power of computer that promises a change of game for healthcare due to high precision evaluation of the condition and treatment (R15). (Open Code: Appropriate degree of radiations) |