Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Healthcare Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data; generative AI; association rules
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable healthcare increasingly depends on the effective use of large-scale medical, environmental, and operational data to support clinical, organisational, and public health decision-making. Advances in big data analytics, cognitive computing paradigms, and machine learning are creating new opportunities to design resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems capable of adapting to demographic, environmental, and resource-based challenges.
This Special Issue, entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Healthcare Systems,” will highlight innovative research that integrates AI, health informatics, and data-driven computational methods to improve the sustainability of care delivery. We welcome research that leverages large, heterogeneous datasets, such as electronic health records, biomedical signals, imaging data, and environmental indicators, to enable predictive modelling, personalised medicine, and environmentally aware healthcare operations.
We encourage contributions addressing cognitive and intelligent computing approaches, interpretable and responsible AI, fairness-aware models, and the integration of data-driven systems into real clinical and public health workflows. Topics of interest include big data pipelines for healthcare, scalable machine learning for population health, intelligent decision support, AI-assisted epidemiological surveillance, the optimisation of medical resource allocation, and evaluations of the societal, economic, or ecological impacts of AI-enabled healthcare innovation.
This Special Issue will provide a multidisciplinary platform for advancing the development of sustainable, data-intensive, and human-centred healthcare systems.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Carlos Fernández-Basso
Dr. Andrea Morales-Garzón
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- big data analytics in healthcare
- cognitive computing
- health informatics
- large language models (LLMs)
- autonomous AI Agents
- multi-agent systems
- machine learning and deep learning
- predictive modelling
- responsible and explainable AI
- electronic health records
- clinical decision support
- multimodal data integration
- sustainable healthcare systems
- environmental and population health data
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