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What is Smart Healthcare

Chapter 9
Examining the Socio-Technical Impact of Smart Cities
A healthcare system that enables patients and doctors to communicate with each other and remotely exchange information monitored, collected, and analyzed from patients’ daily activities via the IoT.
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Review of the Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) on the Consumer Market: Focusing on Smart Tourism, Healthcare, and Retailing
Yong Kyu Lee (York College, City University of New York, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5326-8.ch009
Abstract
This chapter reviews the internet of things (IoT) as a key component of a smart city and how it is applied to consumers' daily lives and business. The IoT is a part of information and communication technology (ICT) and is considered a powerful means to improve consumers' quality of life. The “thing” could be any object which has internet capability, such as wearable devices and smart TVs/phones/speakers. Several studies have identified driving factors that have led consumers to adopting them, but also concerns of consumers' resistance to IoT devices. The three major fields of application of IoT technologies were selected to review the role of the IoT in consumers' daily lives and business.
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Chapter 9
Bootstrapping Urban Planning: Addressing Big Data Issues in Smart Cities
Smart healthcare can be defined as an integration of patients and doctors onto a common platform for intelligent health monitoring by analyzing day-to-day human activities.
Published in Chapter: Bootstrapping Urban Planning: Addressing Big Data Issues in Smart Cities; From: Security, Privacy, and Forensics Issues in Big Data
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An Intelligent Virtual Medical Assistant for Healthcare Prediction
It is a semi/fully automated service that apply computer technology such as IoT, Internet Notifications, Wearable Devices, Mobile networks, Cloud services with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to provide an efficient healthcare solution.
Published in Chapter: An Intelligent Virtual Medical Assistant for Healthcare Prediction; From: Encyclopedia of Data Science and Machine Learning
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Chapter 10
Framework for Remotely Monitoring Patients Using Embedded Devices
The use of digital devices to integrate operations related to healthcare such as data collection and processing, interconnecting healthcare actors using computer networks.
Published in Chapter: Framework for Remotely Monitoring Patients Using Embedded Devices; From: Recent Advancements in Smart Remote Patient Monitoring, Wearable Devices, and Diagnostics Systems
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Chapter 4
A Review of the Technologies Trending Towards 5G Network for IoT-Based Smart Healthcare
A smart healthcare system connects people, resources, and healthcare-related institutions while actively managing and intelligently responding to the demands of the medical ecosystem. It does this by utilizing technologies like wearables, the Internet of Things, and mobile internet to dynamically access information.
Published in Chapter: A Review of the Technologies Trending Towards 5G Network for IoT-Based Smart Healthcare; From: Revolutionizing Healthcare Treatment With Sensor Technology
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Security and Privacy in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
An integration of patients and doctors onto a common platform for intelligent health monitoring.
Published in Chapter: Security and Privacy in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT); From: Revolutionizing Healthcare Through Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things Applications
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Chapter 20
Utilizing Mobile Sensors for Illness Diagnosis and Health Monitoring
A smart healthcare system connects people, resources, and healthcare-related institutions while actively managing and intelligently responding to the demands of the medical ecosystem. It does this by utilizing technologies like wearables, the Internet of Things, and mobile internet to dynamically access information.
Published in Chapter: Utilizing Mobile Sensors for Illness Diagnosis and Health Monitoring; From: Revolutionizing Healthcare Treatment With Sensor Technology
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