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  • Review
  • Open Access
157 Citations
17,316 Views
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Internet of Medical Things and Healthcare 4.0: Trends, Requirements, Challenges, and Research Directions

  • Manar Osama,
  • Abdelhamied A. Ateya,
  • Mohammed S. Sayed,
  • Mohamed Hammad,
  • Paweł Pławiak,
  • Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif and
  • Rania A. Elsayed

25 August 2023

Healthcare 4.0 is a recent e-health paradigm associated with the concept of Industry 4.0. It provides approaches to achieving precision medicine that delivers healthcare services based on the patient’s characteristics. Moreover, Healthcare 4.0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
685 Views
19 Pages

Perspectives on Research and Personalized Healthcare in the Context of Federated FAIR Data Based on an Exploratory Study by Medical Researchers

  • Elena Poenaru,
  • Monica Dugăeşescu,
  • Călin Poenaru,
  • Iulia Andrei-Bitere,
  • Livia-Cristiana Băicoianu-Niţescu,
  • Traian-Vasile Constantin,
  • Aurelian Zugravu,
  • Brandusa Bitel,
  • Maria Magdalena Constantin and
  • Smaranda Stoleru

11 November 2025

Background: Research in personalized medicine, with applications in oncology, dermatology, cardiology, urology, and general healthcare, requires facile and safe access to accurate data. Due to its particularly sensitive character, obtaining health-re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,509 Views
15 Pages

27 September 2023

Although biomedical research requires cooperation with a large number of donors, its success also depends on the input of healthcare professionals who play a crucial role in promoting biomedical research and influencing an individual’s decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
12 Pages

15 November 2025

Background/Objectives: Interdisciplinary research teams that include critical disability studies (CDS) scholars and Healthcare and Medical Researchers have the potential to investigate complex lived experiences and explore new opportunities to best s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
449 Views
23 Pages

Cyber–Physical Systems in Healthcare Based on Medical and Social Research Reflected in AI-Based Digital Twins of Patients

  • Emilia Mikołajewska,
  • Urszula Rogalla-Ładniak,
  • Jolanta Masiak,
  • Ewelina Panas and
  • Dariusz Mikołajewski

28 December 2025

Cyber–physical systems (CPS) in healthcare represent a deep integration of computational intelligence, physical medical devices, and human-centric data, enabling continuous, adaptive, and personalized care. These systems combine real-time measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,124 Views
19 Pages

Implementing Personalized Cancer Medicine: Insights from a Qualitative Interview Study

  • Michele Masucci,
  • Jenny Del Villar Pérez,
  • Pamela Mazzocato,
  • Ingemar Ernberg and
  • Mats Brommels

9 April 2025

Background: Personalized cancer medicine (PCM) tailors cancer treatments based on individual genetic profiles, enabling more precise and effective therapies. Despite its potential, integrating PCM into clinical practice remains challenging because of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,631 Views
28 Pages

17 March 2025

Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have the potential to enhance decision-making in the healthcare sector. However, healthcare providers encounter various challenges when using computer-based systems such as EMRs in clinical decision-making. This stud...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,179 Views
7 Pages

27 January 2016

Over the last decade, the field of molecular diagnostics has undergone tremendous transformation, catalyzed by the clinical implementation of next generation sequencing (NGS). As technical capabilities are enhanced and current limitations are address...

  • Review
  • Open Access
985 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with medical genetics is transforming healthcare by addressing the analytical challenges posed by the vast complexity of multi-omics data. This review explores the synergistic convergence of these field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,391 Views
26 Pages

This paper introduces a prototype for clinical research documentation using the structured information model HL7 CDA and clinical terminology (SNOMED CT). The proposed solution was integrated with the current electronic health record system (EHR-S) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,617 Views
15 Pages

Vaccination Attitudes and Experiences of Medical Doctors in Croatia amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Social Roles Conflict?

  • Maja Miskulin,
  • Aida Mujkic,
  • Ivan Miskulin,
  • Zvjezdana Lovric Makaric,
  • Emma Kovacevic,
  • Ljiljana Pintaric and
  • Zeljko Pavic

5 March 2022

The study aimed to investigate the range of experiences and attitudes of Croatian medical doctors (MDs) related to vaccination and vaccine hesitancy. In January 2021 three asynchronous online focus groups were held using MRQual, a web-based platform,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,730 Views
12 Pages

22 March 2022

Introduction: Important differences exist between the presentation, treatment, and survivorship of patients and survivors with blood cancers. Furthermore, existing research in financial toxicity has not fully addressed the relationship between medica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,050 Views
15 Pages

Improving Sarcoma Outcomes: Target Trial Emulation to Compare the Impact of Unplanned and Planned Resections on the Outcome

  • Timothy T. A. F. Obergfell,
  • Kim N. Nydegger,
  • Philip Heesen,
  • Georg Schelling,
  • Beata Bode-Lesniewska,
  • Gabriela Studer and
  • Bruno Fuchs

3 July 2024

This study follows the Target Trial Emulation (TTE) framework to assess the impact of unplanned resections (UEs) and planned resections (PEs) of sarcomas on local recurrence-free survival (LRFS), metastasis-free survival (MFS), cancer-specific surviv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,752 Views
29 Pages

11 September 2024

This study addresses the puzzle that despite significant policy efforts, research-use in practice remains rare in education even when practitioners are keen. Healthcare has encountered similar problems, and we know little about the nature of the chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,940 Views
17 Pages

Examining Gait Characteristics in People with Osteoporosis Utilizing a Non-Wheeled Smart Walker through Spatiotemporal Analysis

  • Nazia Ejaz,
  • Saad Jawaid Khan,
  • Fahad Azim,
  • Mehwish Faiz,
  • Emil Teuțan,
  • Alin Pleșa,
  • Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and
  • Sergiu-Dan Stan

3 November 2023

Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteopor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,344 Views
12 Pages

Digital technology is an important tool that influences employees from the healthcare sector to manifest their intention to become an entrepreneur. Furthermore, the last pandemic crisis underlined the importance of digitalizing the relationship betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,621 Views
27 Pages

A Novel Cloud Enabled Access Control Model for Preserving the Security and Privacy of Medical Big Data

  • Abdullah Alabdulatif,
  • Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne and
  • Kassim Kalinaki

In the context of healthcare, big data refers to a complex compilation of digital medical data collected from many sources that are difficult to manage with normal technology and software due to its size and complexity. These big data are useful in v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,452 Views
18 Pages

Healthcare Supply Chain Reliability: The Case of Medical Air Transport

  • Beata Skowron-Grabowska,
  • Marta Wincewicz-Bosy,
  • Małgorzata Dymyt,
  • Adam Sadowski,
  • Tomasz Dymyt and
  • Katarzyna Wąsowska

The principal task of national healthcare systems is to provide health services that are safe, accessible, high-quality and people-oriented. To ensure the continuity of healthcare, support activities related to patient transfer and logistics are nece...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,578 Views
25 Pages

Since the effectiveness of hospital management is influenced by financial management, healthcare professionals’ financial literacy has drawn the attention of researchers and policymakers. Previous research on medical students and healthcare pro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,792 Views
19 Pages

Polymer Based Bioadhesive Biomaterials for Medical Application—A Perspective of Redefining Healthcare System Management

  • Nibedita Saha,
  • Nabanita Saha,
  • Tomas Sáha,
  • Ebru Toksoy Öner,
  • Urška Vrabič Brodnjak,
  • Heinz Redl,
  • Janek von Byern and
  • Petr Sáha

16 December 2020

This article deliberates about the importance of polymer-based bioadhesive biomaterials’ medical application in healthcare and in redefining healthcare management. Nowadays, the application of bioadhesion in the health sector is one of the grea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,685 Views
17 Pages

5 January 2024

This paper focuses on addressing the complex healthcare needs of patients struggling with discordant chronic comorbidities (DCCs). Managing these patients within the current healthcare system often proves to be a challenging process, characterized by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,243 Views
11 Pages

This research explored the potential of developing a university healthcare and medical school within King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, by merging four medical and/or healthcare colleges within the institution into a medical school. The objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,447 Views
14 Pages

29 April 2021

The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic has had a significant impact on the healthcare delivery system worldwide. Many pre-pandemic norms, standards, and methods of providing medical services in most medical facilities had to be changed and re-ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,939 Views
12 Pages

Total health expenditure in China has grown considerably since a new round of health system reform was enacted in 2009. Researchers have shown that strengthening primary healthcare may be an option for countries to solve the rapid expansion of their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,273 Views
16 Pages

The level of leadership skills of healthcare team leaders has long been the subject of interest and many discussions. Several studies have pointed to their inadequacy, which is becoming a serious problem during the global crisis due to the Covid-19 p...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,403 Views
14 Pages

A Medical Equipment Lifecycle Framework to Improve Healthcare Policy and Sustainability

  • Bruce Mang,
  • YeonJae Oh,
  • Chabelly Bonilla and
  • Jennifer Orth

19 April 2023

The healthcare sector is struggling to become more environmentally friendly compared to other industries, evidently seen by the contribution to global emissions. These struggles have elicited some research on sustainable methods regarding the lifecyc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,670 Views
27 Pages

A Review of the State of the Art for the Internet of Medical Things

  • Peter Matthew,
  • Sarah Mchale,
  • Xutao Deng,
  • Ghada Nakhla,
  • Marcello Trovati,
  • Nonso Nnamoko,
  • Ella Pereira,
  • Huaizhong Zhang and
  • Mohsin Raza

24 March 2025

The technological developments in the Internet of Things (IoT), data science, artificial intelligence, wearable sensors, remote monitoring, decision support systems, fog, and edge systems have transformed digital healthcare. Especially after the pand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,657 Views
10 Pages

Healthcare Professional and User Perceptions of eHealth Data and Record Privacy in Dubai

  • Fatima Mohamed AlMarzooqi,
  • Immanuel Azaad Moonesar and
  • Raeda AlQutob

28 August 2020

Introduction: Dubai city made a significant leap forward, which aligns with the vision of leadership, in the region’s eHealth services by adopting a unified electronic medical record system across the country. Electronic medical records provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,361 Views
46 Pages

Ambient Intelligence (AMI) represents a significant advancement in information technology that is perceptive, adaptable, and finely attuned to human needs. It holds immense promise across diverse domains, with particular relevance to healthcare. The...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,261 Views
12 Pages

Pain Acceptance and Pain-Related Disability Predict Healthcare Utilization and Medication Intake in Patients with Non-Specific Chronic Spinal Pain

  • Rosa Esteve,
  • Alicia Eva López-Martínez,
  • Gema Teresa Ruíz-Párraga,
  • Elena Rocío Serrano-Ibáñez and
  • Carmen Ramírez-Maestre

Longitudinal research is needed to determine predictive factors of healthcare utilization and medication intake in people with non-specific spinal pain. This study aims to prospectively examine the predictive value of sex, age, work status, pain inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
8,592 Views
41 Pages

The Personal Health Applications of Machine Learning Techniques in the Internet of Behaviors

  • Zahra Amiri,
  • Arash Heidari,
  • Mehdi Darbandi,
  • Yalda Yazdani,
  • Nima Jafari Navimipour,
  • Mansour Esmaeilpour,
  • Farshid Sheykhi and
  • Mehmet Unal

15 August 2023

With the swift pace of the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in diverse spheres, the medical and healthcare fields are utilizing machine learning (ML) methodologies in numerous inventive ways. ML techniques have outstripped formerly state-o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
15,723 Views
52 Pages

With the improvement of economic conditions and the increase in living standards, people’s attention in regard to health is also continuously increasing. They are beginning to place their hopes on machines, expecting artificial intelligence (AI...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,524 Views
6 Pages

Data Analytics in Smart Healthcare: The Recent Developments and Beyond

  • Miltiadis D. Lytras,
  • Kwok Tai Chui and
  • Anna Visvizi

14 July 2019

The concepts of the smart city and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been facilitating the rollout of medical devices and systems to capture valuable information of humanity. A lot of artificial intelligence techniques have been demonstrated to be ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
661 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2025

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the latest advancement in the Internet of Things (IoT). Researchers are increasingly drawn to its vast potential applications in secure healthcare systems. The growing use of internet-connected medical device...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,069 Views
4 Pages

Special Issue on Clinical Medicine for Healthcare and Sustainability

  • Teen-Hang Meen,
  • Yusuke Matsumoto and
  • Kuan-Han Lee

13 July 2020

Recently, due to the advancement of network technology, big data and artificial intelligence, the healthcare industry has undergone many sector-wide changes. Medical care has not only changed from passive and hospital-centric to preventative and pers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
81 Citations
17,269 Views
18 Pages

AI-Enabled Wearable Medical Internet of Things in Healthcare System: A Survey

  • Fazli Subhan,
  • Alina Mirza,
  • Mazliham Bin Mohd Su’ud,
  • Muhammad Mansoor Alam,
  • Shibli Nisar,
  • Usman Habib and
  • Muhammad Zubair Iqbal

20 January 2023

Technology has played a vital part in improving quality of life, especially in healthcare. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are extensively employed to link accessible medical resources and deliver dependable and effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,033 Views
18 Pages

Translating Strategies into Tactical Actions: The Role of Sourcing Levers in Healthcare Procurement

  • Carolina Belotti Pedroso,
  • Eugene Schneller,
  • Claudia Rebolledo and
  • Martin Beaulieu

Expensive medical devices, especially in the areas of orthopedics, and cardiology, have a significant impact on hospital costs and the delivery of high-quality services. These medical supplies are known as physician preference items (PPIs), as they a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
21,537 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2023

Blockchain offers a cutting-edge solution for storing medical data, carrying out medical transactions, and establishing trust for medical data integration and exchange in a decentralized open healthcare network setting. While blockchain in healthcare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,217 Views
15 Pages

There is little research on the utilization of non-medical community healthcare services among the elderly, compared with that of medical community healthcare services. From the perspective of both supply and demand, based on the survey data from Sha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,970 Views
27 Pages

Medical errors negatively affect patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare establishments. Therefore, all healthcare service members should be attentive to medical errors. Research has revealed that most medical errors are caused by the syst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,596 Views
11 Pages

Analysis of the Healthcare System in Romania: A Brief Review

  • Ion Petre,
  • Flavia Barna,
  • Daniela Gurgus,
  • Laurentiu Cezar Tomescu,
  • Adrian Apostol,
  • Izabella Petre,
  • Cristian Furau,
  • Miruna Lucia Năchescu and
  • Anca Bordianu

This manuscript provides a brief review and analysis of the healthcare system in Romania. This study aims to comprehensively analyse the healthcare system in Romania, evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and impact on the population’s access t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,927 Views
23 Pages

A Framework for User-Focused Electronic Health Record System Leveraging Hyperledger Fabric

  • Mandla Ndzimakhwe,
  • Arnesh Telukdarie,
  • Inderasan Munien,
  • Andre Vermeulen,
  • Uche K. Chude-Okonkwo and
  • Simon P. Philbin

16 January 2023

This research study aims to examine the possibilities of Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) in the healthcare sector. The study addresses the gap in the knowledge base through developing customization techniques to enable the simplicity and efficacy of Electro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,052 Views
32 Pages

A Systematic Review on Cloud Storage Mechanisms Concerning e-Healthcare Systems

  • Adnan Tahir,
  • Fei Chen,
  • Habib Ullah Khan,
  • Zhong Ming,
  • Arshad Ahmad,
  • Shah Nazir and
  • Muhammad Shafiq

21 September 2020

As the expenses of medical care administrations rise and medical services experts are becoming rare, it is up to medical services organizations and institutes to consider the implementation of medical Health Information Technology (HIT) innovation fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,992 Views
22 Pages

Treatment Level and Store Level Analyses of Healthcare Data

  • Kaiwen Wang,
  • Jiehui Ding,
  • Kristen R. Lidwell,
  • Scott Manski,
  • Gee Y. Lee and
  • Emilio Xavier Esposito

17 April 2019

The presented research discusses general approaches to analyze and model healthcare data at the treatment level and at the store level. The paper consists of two parts: (1) a general analysis method for store-level product sales of an organization an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,362 Views
26 Pages

26 August 2024

The research determines the level of financial risk in the Russian healthcare system and identifies prospects for improving the current Russian practice of financial risk management in healthcare when providing high-tech medical care for sustainable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,690 Views
18 Pages

Successful healthcare companies and illness diagnostics require data visualization. Healthcare and medical data analysis are needed to use compound information. Professionals often gather, evaluate, and monitor medical data to gauge risk, performance...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,211 Views
12 Pages

The Critical Factors Affecting the Deployment and Scaling of Healthcare AI: Viewpoint from an Experienced Medical Center

  • Chung-Feng Liu,
  • Chien-Cheng Huang,
  • Jhi-Joung Wang,
  • Kuang-Ming Kuo and
  • Chia-Jung Chen

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the greatest opportunity for development. Since healthcare and technology are two of Taiwan’s most competitive industries, the development of healthcare AI is an excellent chance for Taiwan to improve its h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,692 Views
21 Pages

Machine Learning for Identifying Medication-Associated Acute Kidney Injury

  • Sheikh S. Abdullah,
  • Neda Rostamzadeh,
  • Kamran Sedig,
  • Daniel J. Lizotte,
  • Amit X. Garg and
  • Eric McArthur

One of the prominent problems in clinical medicine is medication-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). Avoiding this problem can prevent patient harm and reduce healthcare expenditures. Several researches have been conducted to identify AKI-associated m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,368 Views
15 Pages

An Update on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine

  • Shiavax J. Rao,
  • Shaikh B. Iqbal,
  • Ameesh Isath,
  • Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk,
  • Zhen Wang,
  • Benjamin S. Glicksberg and
  • Chayakrit Krittanawong

9 February 2024

Artificial intelligence, specifically advanced language models such as ChatGPT, have the potential to revolutionize various aspects of healthcare, medical education, and research. In this review, we evaluate the myriad applications of artificial inte...

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