Healthcare 5.0: In the Perspective of Consumer Internet-of-Things-Based Fog/Cloud Computing

Abstract

Nowadays, our society has been experiencing the development of Healthcare 4.0, focusing on digitalization by utilizing cloud/fog computing-based consumer Internet-of-Things (CIoT). Meanwhile, Industry 5.0 has been defined recently, targeting improving the current Industry 4.0. Inspired by Industry 5.0, we are among the first wave of researchers to propose Healthcare 5.0, specifically in the perspective of fog/cloud computing. Concretely, we perform a comprehensive vertical and horizontal summary of Healthcare 1.0 – 4.0 and Industry 1.0 – 4.0, which enables us to be among the first research efforts to provide a unique prediction of the corresponding upcoming Healthcare 5.0, based on Industry 5.0. In particular, we predict the potential development in Healthcare 5.0, specifically for fog/cloud computing, on top of a comprehensive overview of the role and state-of-the-art development in Healthcare 4.0. We also give our unique insight of the potential technologies of CIoT and fog/cloud computing in Healthcare 5.0, as well as the corresponding opportunities and challenges. Therefore, for the first time, this article provides deep and well-thought insight to open a new era towards the future fog/cloud computing for healthcare system development towards Healthcare 5.0.