Review of Smart Healthcare Systems and Applications for Smart Cities

摘要

From the last decade concept of Smart city has gain importance worldwide. It is considered to be most innovative system which will communicate with people and also smart infrastructure embedded in smart city. Smart infrastructure will be capable of monitoring and managing the traffic, transport, water supply, law enforcement, healthcare and all basic facilities. Advancement in mobile cloud computing technologies, ubiquitous computing, intelligent sensor networks and cognitive services for interaction among the sensors forms the foundation for smart city. Smart healthcare is the crucial part of smart cities and will play very important role in converting traditional cities to smart cities. Researches in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have made medical services smarter with high quality which is improving living standards of individual. Smart health applications will act as catalyst in the improvement of the quality of healthcare services provided by government or private hospitals and in reducing the burden of health professionals. This paper gives the review of smart health applications which will be benefiting the society by providing easy telecommunication between patients and health practitioners, pharmacist etc., maintaining fitness, tracking patients' health online using implantable devices, wearable devices or smartphone applications.