ABSTRACT
Change in lifestyle and advancement in technology have made health care an important domain in computing. In rural areas, the availability of doctors is generally rare and very few expert doctors are available. This demands automated smart medical assistive systems for the medical diagnosis of patients in rural areas. The major objective of this chapter is to discuss available smart-intelligent health care systems with heterogeneous data processing and provide a bird’s eye view of such systems to the readers along with challenges and scope for research. Section 4.1 discusses the importance of smart health care systems followed by the architecture of a typical health care system. The heterogeneous nature of huge amounts of data makes preprocessing and secured storage an important aspect of the system that is discussed in Section 4.3. Section 4.4 discusses various algorithms for intelligent decisions used by successful smart health care systems. The challenges and scope for further research are discussed in Section 4.5 and the last section features a discussion and conclusion.
