Smart healthcare: making medical care more intelligent

Shuo Tian, Wenbo Yang, Jehane Michael Le Grange, Peng Wang, Wei Huang, Zhewei Ye

Global Health Journal · 2019 · 699 citations · 20 references

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Smart healthcare, driven by IoT, big data, cloud computing, and AI, is emerging as a comprehensive approach to make medical care more efficient, convenient, and personalized. This review aims to introduce smart healthcare by outlining its supporting technologies, current applications, existing challenges, proposed solutions, and future prospects. The authors conduct a comprehensive review, cataloguing key technologies, surveying current applications, identifying challenges, proposing solutions, and assessing future directions. The review identifies key challenges in smart healthcare and proposes potential solutions to address them.

Abstract

With the development of information technology, the concept of smart healthcare has gradually come to the fore. Smart healthcare uses a new generation of information technologies, such as the internet of things (loT), big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, to transform the traditional medical system in an all-round way, making healthcare more efficient, more convenient, and more personalized. With the aim of introducing the concept of smart healthcare, in this review, we first list the key technologies that support smart healthcare and introduce the current status of smart healthcare in several important fields. Then we expound the existing problems with smart healthcare and try to propose solutions to them. Finally, we look ahead and evaluate the future prospects of smart healthcare.

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