The Emerging Technology Identification of Ambulance Technologies in Thailand

The research in emerging technologies has long been crucial to many countries, ranging from public to private organizations. There are also various approaches to identify the emergence of technologies including bibliometric analysis. In the area of health policy, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) presents a key role to save lives and reduce death rates. These services use ambulances to take patients to the nearest hospital in emergencies, and many ambulance technologies are useful to support emergency medical personnel during their operations. Henceforth, the new creation of practical ambulance technologies benefits all mankind. According to Pulsiri et al. (2019), the new definition of “Ambulance technology” in the digital world should cover its arising three main clusters, which are Intelligent Transportation System, eHealth, and Telecommunication Infrastructure. Therefore, this paper aims to identify emerging ambulance technologies in the three main clusters by using bibliometric analysis. VantagePoint software is selected to analyze 177 publications from SCOPUS, Web of Science, and PubMed databases, to create the list of emerging ambulance technologies. These emerging technologies will be validated based on two criteria that are radical novelty and prominent impact, with healthcare experts. The validated list of emerging ambulance technology is also meaningful to support Thailand’s EMS policy in technology and innovation.