# Smart healthcare

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- [Smart healthcare](#smart-healthcare)
    - [Intro](#intro)
    - [Reasons](#reasons)
    - [Implementation](#implementation)

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## Intro

- History: ![history](./assets/5-smart-health-history.webp)
- Patient centric
- Precision medicine
- Atrial digital twins

## Reasons

- Current problems:
    - Global Health Disparities
    - Unequal shortage of healthcare workers
    - Increasing rate of burnout in healthcare
    - Mental health
    - Sustainable Development Goal 3
- What smart healthcare can help
    - Remote doctor consult
    - Reduce un-necessary hospital visits
    - Democratize healthcare access
- Remote emergency
    - 5G powered emergency channel give doctor real time view
    - Real time access of vital signs like ECG, ultrasound image, and blood
      pressure
    - Access to medical history
    - Doctors guide paramedics in ambulance
- Drug discovery
    - Cost saving and agility methods
    - All fancy words including (ML, DL, ANN)
- Offset a shortage of specialists
    - AI can help in aiding diagnosis
- Before smart hospitals
    - Data presented is overwhelming
        - hindering the ability of using it effectively
    - People trip and die in hospitals
    - Too much administration work
    - Shortage of qualified staff
    - Spending wasted in managing assets
    - Nurses waste time in searching for medical equipment
- Benefits of smart hospitals
    - Save money on asset searching
    - Reminder
    - Home-based health monitoring reduces re-admission
    - Eliminate emergency
    - Warning of deterioration

## Implementation

- EMR: Electronic medical records
    - Diagnosis, Image Data, Unstructured text data, Medications, Procedures,
      Lab tests
    - Data is challenging to use: high dimensionality, sparse, noisy, irregular,
      biased
- IoMT: lots of data, lots of money going in
- Healthcare technology: Better quality of life, with less money required
    - ![stupid diagram](./assets/5-smart-health-benefit.webp)
