Smart Health and Wellbeing

Abstract

Healthcare informatics has drawn substantial attention in recent years. Current work on healthcare informatics is highly interdisciplinary involving methodologies from computing, engineering, information science, behavior science, management science, social science, as well as many different areas in medicine and public health. Three major tracks, (i) systems, (ii) analytics, and (iii) human factors, can be identified. The systems track focuses on healthcare system architecture, framework, design, engineering, and application; the analytics track emphasizes data/information processing, retrieval, mining, analytics, as well as knowledge discovery; the human factors track targets the understanding of users or context, interface design, and user studies of healthcare applications. In this article, we discuss some of the latest development and introduce several articles selected for this special issue. We envision that the development of computing-oriented healthcare informatics research will continue to grow rapidly. The integration of different disciplines to advance the healthcare and wellbeing of our society will also be accelerated.

Smart Spaces Enabled Mobile Healthcare Services in Internet of Things Environments

“…Smart-M3 preserves the efficiency in operation with dynamic mobile data coming in parallel from multiple users. When collected in databases of the backend infrastructure, the medical data can be efficiently processed using already developed methods, as it happens now in many medical information systems, see reviews in (Acampora, Cook, Rashidi, & Vasilakos, 2013;Hovenga, Kidd, Garde, & Cossio, 2010;C. C. Yang, Leroy, & Ananiadou, 2013).…”

A Critical Review of Smart Residential Environments for Older Adults With a Focus on Pleasurable Experience

“…Age-related changes prevent older adults from actively participating in activities that are essential for their well-being. Owing to the rapid increase in the number of older adults, numerous smart technologies are designed to promote their well-beingincluding various health applications to support physical activities as well as sensor-based networks for monitoring activity-and to help these individuals stay in touch with family and friends (Morris et al, 2013;Yang et al, 2013;Lloret et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016). Further, various studies are being conducted on the positive impact of smart technology on living environments, routine life activities, and maximizing the independence of older adults (Horgas and Abowd, 2004).…”

Smart Health: Sensors, Big Data, and Cloud Computing in the Health Sector in the U.A.E

“…INTRODUCTION Health and well-being are, arguably, among the top priorities of most individuals around the world. As such, the role of healthcare is critical in all communities, and the development of efficient healthcare systems is a top priority for governments and health organizations on a world-wide basis (Yang, Leroy, & Ananiadou, 2013). With the technological advances of the past decades transforming almost every aspect of our lives, it is unsurprising that healthcare has become the subject of rapid, technologically-driven transformations under the concept of smart health, an umbrella term covering a range of underlying concepts and technologies, such as wireless, wearable devices and sensors and the use of big data and cloud computing in the broader context of health services and infrastructures (Imec, 2019).…”