Abstract
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify some of the challenges that need to be addressed to accelerate the deployment and adoption of smart health technologies for ubiquitous healthcare access. The paper also explores how internet of things (IoT) and big data technologies can be combined with smart health to provide better healthcare solutions. Design/methodology/approach: The authors reviewed the literature to identify the challenges which have slowed down the deployment and adoption of smart health. Findings: The authors discussed how IoT and big data technologies can be integrated with smart health to address some of the challenges to improve health-care availability, access and costs. Originality/value: The results of this paper will help health-care designers, professionals and researchers design better health-care information systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 149-168 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | PSU Research Review |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 15 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019, Sherali Zeadally, Farhan Siddiqui, Zubair Baig and Ahmed Ibrahim.
Keywords
- Big data
- Connected health
- Digital health
- Healthcare
- Internet of things
- IoT
- Smart health
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Computer Science Applications