Innovation in health informatics : a smart healthcare primer / edited by Miltiadis Lytras and Akila Sarirete.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section A Smart healthcare in the Era of Bid data and data science -- Smart healthcare: emerging technologies, best practices, and sustainable policies -- Syndromic surveillance using web data: a systematic review -- Natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and clinical analytics -- Section B Advanced decision making and artificial intelligence for smart healthcare -- Clinical decision support for infection control in surgical care -- Human activity recognition using machine learning methods in a smart healthcare environment -- Application of machine learning and image processing for detection of breast cancer -- Toward information preservation in healthcare systems -- Section Emerging technologies and systems for smart healthcare -- Security and privacy solutions for smart healthcare systems -- Cloud-based health monitoring framework using smart sensors and smartphone -- Mobile program -m - health technology in the promotion of parturient's health in the delivery room -- Artificial intelligence- assisted detection of diabetic retinopathy on digital fundus images: concepts and applications in the National health service -- Virtual reality and sensors for the next generation medical systems -- Portable smart healthcare solution to eye examination for diabetic retinopathy detection at an earlier stage -- Improved nodule detection in the chest X-rays using principal component analysis filters -- Characterizing internet of medical things/personal area network landscape -- Section D Social issue and policy making for smart healthcare -- Threats to patients' privacy in smart healthcare environment -- Policy implications for smart healthcare: the international collaboration dimension.