News-Medical.Net April 27, 2022
By Dr. Nicola Williams, Ph.D. Reviewed by Sophia Coveney

Advances in technology look set to change the face of global health care as we know it. The idea of smart healthcare uses a new generation of information technologies including artificial intelligence and big data.

The future of healthcare looks set to be transformed in a positive way so that is more streamlined, personal and efficient.

A new generation of smart health technologies

The concept of smart healthcare originated from that of the “Smart Planet” first proposed in 2009 by IBM (Armonk, NY, USA). Smart Planet “is an intelligent infrastructure that uses sensors to perceive information, transmits information through the internet of things (IoT), and processes the information using supercomputers and cloud computing” (Tian, 2019).

Also, according to Tian...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Big Data, IoT (Internet of Things), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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