Guest Editorial Special Section on Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Internet of Things, and Big Data Analytics Applications for Healthcare Industry 4.0

The papers in this special section focus on cloud computing, fog computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data analytics for the future healthcare industry, or Healthcare 4.0. Healthcare Industry 4.0 allows increasing flexibility in production, speeding up both manufacturing and market processes,...

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Published inIEEE transactions on industrial informatics Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 454 - 456
Main Authors Celesti, A., Amft, O., Villari, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2019
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data management
Edge computing
Industrial applications
Internet of Things
Manufacturing processes
Medical services
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Summary:The papers in this special section focus on cloud computing, fog computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data analytics for the future healthcare industry, or Healthcare 4.0. Healthcare Industry 4.0 allows increasing flexibility in production, speeding up both manufacturing and market processes, increasing both the product quality and productivity, and changing business models modifying the interaction with value chain, competitors, and clients. Healthcare Industry 4.0 requires investments and mind-set change for cross-industry collaboration, agreements on data ownership, security, legal issue solving, product registration standards, new machine-to-machine communication protocols, and employment/skills development. Furthermore,Healthcare Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the market of health service provisioning to patients and clinical operators.
ISSN:1551-3203
1941-0050
DOI:10.1109/TII.2018.2883315