Emerging Technologies in Health Informatics and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Health informatics is an evolving interdisciplinary domain that comprises the use of emerging ICT technologies to support and improve healthcare and health.

The convergence of assistive technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing and IoT technologies, digitization of health processes and systems, 3D bioprinting, nanomedicine, and robotics is about to occur. The year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (2020) witnessed the rise of virtual healthcare. Virtual healthcare technologies, also known as telehealth or telemedicine, have helped provide access to care at a time when cities and even countries were in lockdown.

Apart from the telehealth trends, the healthcare sector is rapidly adopting IoT and cloud computing technologies as well, creating what is known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). In IoMT, IoT systems and devices such as wearables devices, smart homes, personalized healthcare systems—with data analytics capabilities and including machine learning algorithms—are poised to offer healthcare providers access to a range of information that can be used for monitoring patients, continuous analysis, remote configuration of systems, and importantly, early diagnosis and therapeutic interventions.

This Special Issue seeks commentaries, original research articles, short reports, and reviews on all emerging technologies in healthcare. This Special Issue aims to report on recent and emerging trends in health and medical informatics. It is now more important than ever to bring to light ICT solutions that can improve and automate healthcare services, minimize costs, simplify the management and deployment of healthcare services, preserve patients’ privacy, and improve the security of data collection, processing, storage as well as the that of data analytics.

The “Emerging Technologies in Health Informatics and Management” Special Issue is jointly organized between “Healthcare” and “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health” journals. You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Healthcare.

We look forward to your contribution.

Dr. Mahmoud Elkhodr
Dr. Omar Darwish
Dr. Belal Alsinglawi
Guest Editors

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