Smart Health Systems: Emerging Trends

The upcoming trends in healthcare are intended towards improving the overall quality of life. In the past,management of health issues were limited to clinics and hospitals and managing patient’s data and analyzing it. This procedure was difficult and time consuming. A great effort was also needed in diagnosing the cause and type of disease, but this all has changed now. As advancement in research and technologies, a positive impact on healthcare is seen. This book assesses the need and era of smart healthcare and delivers content relevant to current age and time. It describes the trend, usage and practicality of IWMDs i.e. Wearable Medical Device or Sensors (WMSs) and Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) and how they enhance the awareness of daily healthcare.It establishes a relation and conjunction of daily healthcare monitoring with clinical healthcare. A healthcare system is called smart when there is an ability to make decisions, which comes from data analytics. Smart healthcare systems possess capability of data analytics and IoT based services which can be implemented on smart phones using cloud technology. This book discusses various research trends and technologies related to innovations and advancements for smart healthcare systems. It also elaborates challenges, scope upcoming techniques, devices and future directions for smart healthcare systems.The proposed book would in particular benefit researchers interested in interdisciplinary sciences, It would also be of value to faculty, research communities, and researchers from diverse disciplines who aspire to create new and innovative research initiatives.

Dr. Sonali Vyas is serving as an academician and researcher for around a decade. Currently, she is working as assistant professor (Senior Scale) at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Uttarakhand.

She is a professional member of CSI, IEEE, ACM-India, IFERP, IAENG, ISOC, SCRS and IJERT.

She has been awarded as “Best Academician of the Year Award (Female)” in "Global Education and Corporate Leadership Awards (GECL-2018)”.

Her research interest includes Database Virtualization, Data Mining, and Big Data Analytics. She has authored an ample number of research papers, articles and chapters in refereed journals/conference proceedings and books. She is an editor of “Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions”, Springer Nature and “Smart Farming Technologies for Sustainable Agricultural Development, IGI Global”. She acted as a guest editor in a special issue of “Elsevier International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering (CAEE)” and Machine Learning and Software Systems in “Journal of Statistics & Management Systems (JSMS)” (Thomson Reuters)”. She is also a member of the editorial board and reviewer board in many referred national and international journals.

She is an active member of the Organizing Committee, National Advisory Board and Technical Program Committee at many International and National conferences. She has also chaired sessions in various reputed international and national conferences.

Prof. (Dr) Deepshikha Bhargava has rich experience of around 20+ years as an academician. Currently, she is working as a professor and HoD- Virtualization, School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun.

She is also presiding officer at the Internal Complaints Committee of the university. She had been chairman, gender cell for three years at Amity University Jaipur.

She has published 16 books and 70+ research papers in journalsand conference proceedings. She served as visiting professor at Université des Mascareignes (UDM), Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Mauritius.

She is a member of Institute of Engineers (IE), ACM-W, IEEE, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA; Computer Society of India (CSI); Project Management Institute (PMI), Indian Society of Lightening Engineers (ISLE) and Vigyan Bharti (Vibha). Prof Bhargava has received the award “Active Participation Woman Award”, “Best Faculty of the year” under the subcategory ‘Authoring Books on Contemporary Subjects’ to name a few. She has also awarded by MHRD, Govt. of India in the year 1992 for academic excellence.

Her research area includes soft computing, bio-inspired computation and software agents.