Abstract: Rapid digitization has taken place in all industries over the past ten years. Health care has also undergone this digital transformation through the increasing use of electronic medical records (EMR), health information systems (HIS), wearables, handhelds, and portable and smart devices. For this reason, there is now a large amount and variety of health-related data in digital form, including omics data, sociodemographics, and insurance claims data, but excluding clinical data. Combining high-performance smart and emerging technologies such as Big Data, IoT, distributed real-time computing such as cloud computing, and distributed storage systems, optimized use of sensors, etc. effectively not only analyzes a large volume of fast-paced health care data; it can also estimate the chances of getting and recovering diseases. Health care informatics is experiencing a revolution due to the availability of safe, smart, and economical portable sensors. The development of Internet of Things sensors has been utilized by smart hospitals to create remote patient monitoring (RPM) models that can monitor aged or disabled patients even at home.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-12-03
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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