Bridging Healthcare Operations Management and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Post-pandemic Era

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our lives in an unprecedented way all around the world, posing critical challenges but also creating a huge opportunity in the field of healthcare. With the rapid development of information technology and computation capability, the pandemic has fueled the boom of many new health services, such as telehealth, digital smart medicine, IoT healthcare, home healthcare and so on. The increasing availability of healthcare relevant data makes possible better disease prevention, diagnostic and healthcare system operations. In addition, many innovative data-driven approaches have been developed for a wide range of healthcare applications such as telemedical consultation center planning, healthcare informatics, health monitoring and management system, home healthcare planning, healthcare delivery optimization, and medical staff scheduling. This Special Issue seeks to bridge healthcare and ICT to help to develop better operation strategies, which can further improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. In other words, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive view of health services improvement with ICT among various research topics such as optimization, scheduling, forecasting, recommendation and so on. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: l Interdisciplinary cooperation optimization in telehealth; l Healthcare delivery optimization in the context of smart medicine; l Data-driven predictive analysis for precision medicine; l Machine Learning techniques of big data analytics for disease prevention and diagnostic l AI-supported techniques for healthcare recommendation system; l IoT healthcare analysis l Digital health technologies l The scheduling and routing optimization in home healthcare system; l Smart technologies for improving the quality of mobile health care.

Dr. Hainan Guo
Prof. Dr. Gang Du
Dr. Yang Zhao
Guest Editors

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