ABSTRACT
The concept of smart healthcare has contributed to numerous innovations in emerging IT technologies. Nowadays, interest in smart healthcare has grown as a result of the synergy of emerging IT technologies with the healthcare sector, including Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), big data, edge/fog computing, and many other fields and applications. Due to this synergy, the newly emerging field of smart healthcare has begun to develop cutting-edge medical applications and improve diagnostic and therapeutic processes. In this chapter, we give a thorough overview of the significance of smart healthcare in smart cities. The concept of intelligent healthcare is introduced in this chapter; afterward, we discuss the emergent technologies—such as IoMT, big data, computing paradigms, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, and smart wearables—which have become the trends to be employed to improve medical services and transform traditional healthcare into innovative healthcare to extend the quality of healthcare performance. The taxonomy of smart healthcare techniques, i.e., AI- and IoT-based (AIoT) that rely on analyzing and processing big data at different design abstraction levels, will be outlined. This would assist in providing a road map of potential efficient healthcare schemes and applications to advance medical treatment. Then it is followed up by reviewing a wide range of prevalent techniques and applications in smart healthcare. These approaches have been adopted to improve healthcare systems at different levels of abstraction. Furthermore, the current research challenges and prospects will be thoroughly discussed to point out drawbacks and highlight possible alternative paths for effective scholarly solutions. In short, the inspiration of this chapter has been to provide a compendium of design insights and applications for monitoring and treatment of healthcare techniques to identify the most effective approaches and applications, in order to serve as a guide for researchers and inventors of reliable healthcare systems.
