Smart Healthcare Systems

Recently, the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have revolutionized numerous industries, including healthcare. The convergence of AI and IoT has given birth to smart healthcare systems, transforming the way we deliver, receive, and experience healthcare services. This book explores the profound impact of these technologies on healthcare and presents a comprehensive overview of their applications, challenges, and prospects.

Smart Healthcare Systems: AI and IoT Perspectives addresses various aspects of how smart healthcare can be used to detect and analyze diseases, the underlying methodologies, and related security concerns. It also discusses healthcare as a multidisciplinary field that involves a range of sectors such as the financial system, social factors, health technologies, and organizational structures that affect individuals, families, institutions, organizations, and populations’ healthcare. The book presents the goals of healthcare services which include patient safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. An outline of what smart healthcare consists of which is m-health, e-health, electronic resource management, smart and intelligent home services, and medical devices is included. Along with highlights on how AI and IoT-enabled healthcare technologies are suitable for remote health monitoring, including rehabilitation, and assisted ambient living. Rounding the offers of this book out is that it also covers how healthcare analytics can be applied to the data gathered from different areas to improve healthcare at a minimum expense.

Researchers, Academicians, Industry, R&D Organizations, medical professionals, PG students, and policymakers in the fields of artificial intelligence, the internet of things, healthcare informatics, biomedical engineering, medical informatics, and related subjects can use this book to assist them in making appropriate decisions regarding these emerging disciplines.

Dr. Pankaj Bhambri is affiliated with the Department of Information Technology at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College in Ludhiana. Additionally, he fulfills the role of the Convener for his Departmental Board of Studies. He possesses nearly two decades of teaching experience. His research work has been published in esteemed worldwide and national journals, as well as conference proceedings. Dr. Bhambri has garnered extensive experience in the realm of academic publishing, having served as an editor for a multitude of books in collaboration with esteemed publishing houses such as CRC Press, Elsevier, Scrivener, and Bentham Science. In addition to his editorial roles, he has demonstrated his scholarly prowess by authoring numerous books and contributing chapters to distinguished publishers within the academic community. Dr. Bhambri has been honored with several prestigious accolades, including the ISTE Best Teacher Award in 2023 and 2022, the I2OR National Award in 2020, the Green ThinkerZ Top 100 International Distinguished Educators Award in 2020, the I2OR Outstanding Educator Award in 2019, the SAA Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012, the CIPS Rashtriya Rattan Award in 2008, the LCHC Best Teacher Award in 2007, and numerous other commendations from various government and non-profit organizations. He has provided guidance and oversight for numerous research projects and dissertations at the postgraduate and Ph.D. levels. He successfully organized a diverse range of educational programs, securing financial backing from esteemed institutions such as the AICTE, and the TEQIP, among others. Dr. Bhambri’s areas of interest encompass machine learning, bioinformatics, wireless sensor networks, and network security.

Dr. Rashmi Soni is a Research Supervisor guiding six Research Scholars in the CSE department of Oriental University, Indore, and an Associate Professor in the CSE Department, at Dayananda Sagar Academy of Technology and Management, Bangalore. Dr. Soni has 12 Years of experience in academic and research. She served as the session chair and the advisory and program committee member and reviewer for 10 international conferences and journals from 2018 to 2023. Dr. Soni has published seven Patents and holds a diverse range of professional roles of educator, reviewer, editor, and author for various prominent international journals and conferences. Her research interests include Cloud Computing, IOT, AIOT Bioinformatics, AR and VR, Image processing, and Blockchain.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran (IEEE Member, IMarEST Member) is a Research Fellow at the Seoul National University, Seoul City, South Korea. He is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the Department of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong City, Vietnam. Additionally, he is also an Honorary Professor at the School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, India. Dr. Tien Anh Tran received a B. Eng and an M.Sc. from Vietnam Maritime University, Vietnam in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China in 2018. He is an Editor/Guest Editor for a number of reputation journals indexed in SCI/SCIE. In 2015, he was awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) for the full funding of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in China. In 2019, He was awarded the NEPTUNE prize for outstanding researchers by Vietnam Maritime University, and in 2022, he was one of five outstanding scientists in Vietnam to be nominated for the Ta Quang Buu prize by the National Foundation for Science & Technology Development (NAFOSTED). Additionally, he had been selected and awarded the full scholarship for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the National Research Foundation (NRF) for Foreign Researchers by the Government of South Korea.