Smart Healthcare: Making Medicine Intelligent

Abstract

Advancements in technology carry the capacity to transform the landscape of global healthcare. The paradigm of intelligent healthcare draws from cutting-edge information technologies, encompassing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the extensive reservoir of daily-generated data known as big data. This innovative approach holds the promise of reshaping healthcare, rendering it more effective, tailored, and well-organized. The idea of smart healthcare was derived from the notion of “Smart Planet”, which was introduced in the year 2009 by IBM. The Smart Planet employs an intelligent framework that leverages sensors for data collection, followed by IoT transmission and processing through advanced supercomputers and Cloud Computing technologies. Smart healthcare represents a comprehensive, multi-level change rather than just a simple advanced technology. The shift from disease-centred to patient-centred care and focus on preventative care is at the core of this transformation. Smart healthcare involves human participants such as physicians, patients, doctors and non-human participants such as the bodies that perform researches and medicinal trials. This approach incorporates modern biotechnology and encompasses new technologies such as AI, IoT, the Medical Internet of Things (MIoT), edge computing, cloud computing, big data, and the 5G and 6G wireless communication technologies.