Innovation in Health Informatics

Section A. SMART HEALTHCARE IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA AND DATA SCIENCE
1. Smart Healthcare: Emerging Technologies, Best Practices and Sustainable Policies
Miltiadis D. Lytras, Anna Visvizi and Akila Sarirete
2. Syndromic surveillance models using Web data: a systematic review
Loukas Samaras
3. Clinical Analytics: Fusion of Big Data and Clinical Information
Adil Rajput

Section B. ADVANCED DECISION MAKING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SMART HEALTHCARE 
4. Clinical decision support for infection control in surgical care
i5. Human Activity Recognition using Machine Learning Methods in a Smart Healthcare System
Abdulhamit Subasi Sr.
6. Application of Machine Learning and Image Processing for Detection of Breast Cancer
Muhammad Kashif
7. Towards information preservation in healthcare systems
Omar El Zarif

Section C. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS FOR SMART HEALTHCARE 
8. Security for Smart Healthcare and Medical Information Systems
Yang Lu
9. Cloud-based health monitoring framework using smart sensors and smartphone
Abdulhamit Subasi Sr.
10. Mobile partogram - m-health technology in the promotion of parturient’s health in the delivery room
Karla Maria Carneiro Rolim
11. Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Diabetic Retinal Screening: Concepts and Applications in the NHS
Michael Kouroupis
12. Virtual Reality and Sensors for the Next Generation Medical Systems
Miguel Felix Mata and Miguel Torres-Ruiz
13. Portable Solution to Eye Examination for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection at an Earlier Stage
Nighat Mir
14. Improved Nodule Detection in Chest X-Rays using PCA Filters
Mohammad A.U. Khan
15. Characterizing IOMT/Personal Area Networks Landscape
Adil Rajput

Section D. SOCIAL ISSUES AND POLICY MAKING FOR SMART HEALTHCARE 
16. Threats to Patients’ Privacy in Smart Healthcare Environment
Samara M. Ahmed
17. Policy implications for smart healthcare – the international collaboration dimension
Miltiadis D. Lytras, Anna Visvizi and Akila Sarirete

Section E. APPENDIXES
18. Smart heatlhcare project descriptions
19. Teaching assignments

Innovation in Health Informatics: A Smart Healthcare Primer explains how the most recent advances in information and communication technologies have paved the way for new breakthroughs in healthcare. The book showcases current and prospective applications in a context defined by an imperative to deliver efficient, patient-centered and sustainable healthcare systems. Topics discussed include big data, medical data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5g and sensors, Internet of Things, nanotechnologies and biotechnologies. Additionally, there is a discussion on social issues and policy- making for the implementation of smart healthcare.

This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, practitioners, researchers, clinicians and data scientists who are interested in how to explore the intersections between bioinformatics and health informatics.

• Provides a holistic discussion on the new landscape of medical technologies, including big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5g and sensors, Internet of Things, nanotechnologies and biotechnologies
• Presents a case study driven approach, with references to real-world applications and systems
• Discusses topics with a research-oriented approach that aims to promote research skills and competencies of readers

Graduate students and researchers in bioinformatics and medical informatics; clinicians; practitioners; data scientists