Prolonged life expectancy along with the increasing complexity of medicine and health services raises health costs worldwide dramatically. Whilst the smart health concept has much potential to support the concept of the emerging P4-medicine (preventive, participatory, predictive, and personalized), such high-tech medicine produces large amounts of high-dimensional, weakly-structured data sets and massive amounts of unstructured information. All these technological approaches along with “big data” are turning the medical sciences into a data-intensive science. To keep pace with the growing amounts of complex data, smart hospital approaches are a commandment of the future, necessitating context aware computing along with advanced interaction paradigms in new physical-digital ecosystems. The very successful synergistic combination of methodologies and approaches from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) offers ideal conditions for the vision to support human intelligence with machine learning. The papers selected for this volume focus on hot topics in smart health; they discuss open problems and future challenges in order to provide a research agenda to stimulate further research and progress.

An insider's guide to searching online, communicating with your physician, and maximizing your health from a doctor who works at Google. We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr. Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid common pitfalls, get the information they need, and partner effectively with their health team to figure out a path to good health together, the book distills decades of scientific research into a set of easy-to-follow tips. It also incorporates • firsthand accounts of common challenges on the path to good health; • an inside look at how doctors approach and assess health-related information; • techniques that consumers can use to locate evidence-based information online, whether in blogs, social media postings, forums, or news stories; • guidance on how individuals can make the best use of new technologies, such as health trackers and other applications; • recommendations to help patients assess health information for themselves and make decisions based on what they find; • brief summaries of the scientific studies underpinning the recommendations; and • online and offline resources—including handy checklists and worksheets—to help readers prepare for appointments, discuss tough topics with their doctors, and take control of their health. In addition to helping readers find evidence-based information online, the book provides insights into what you can expect from a visit to a doctor or hospital, how to make a decision about surgery or other treatment, what tests doctors will order, which symptom trackers are really effective, and what questions to ask about medications, supplements, and more. Searching for Health is a valuable resource for charting a healthier path through life.

Every day we make decisions about our health - some big and some small. What we eat, how we live and even where we live can affect our health. But how can we be sure that the advice we are given about these important matters is right for us? This book will provide you with the right tools for assessing health advice.

The older we get, the more concern we have for our health, as it should be! In today's fast paced Health Care world, patients are not taught how to be healthy. In the US almost 70% of us are on prescription medications, and almost 70% of us are considered medically "overweight," and more than 1/3rd are considered obese, and the numbers keep climbing! If drugs and medications were the answer to improving our health, then why is the US ranked #33 in Health out of all developed countries? I grew up a sickly child, I know what it's like to live dependent on medications and I know that Big Pharma has got a Death Grip on our nation. Reading this book, you will learn: * Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancer are Killing us! Find out their Hidden Causes * The Dangers of Pain Killers * How you can Easily Lose Weight Without all the Struggle * The Secrets of Living a Healthy Life Full of Energy You will learn about the hidden dangers, and the secrets, to improving your Health that your Doctor is not telling you. Knowledge is Power but, you must be able to put it into practice and make it work for you and your Lifestyle. The 4 biggest killers today are: Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes and Obesity, all lifestyle based. Healthy body, isn't that what you really want? I have studied Health for 40 years, working one on one with patients for 30 years and I haven't been on an antibiotic in 25 years. You can and will improve your health needing less Doctor visits, and get OFF unnecessary medications. Follow the advice in these pages of this book and allow me to help you. Lastly, what exactly is stopping you from taking back control over your own health? Pay attention to your body now, because one day, your health may depend upon it! Now, Scroll to the top and click the "buy now" button, and I will see you on the other side.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2015, held in Phoenix, AZ, USA, in November 2015. The 33 papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The conference focused on topics and issues including medical monitoring and information extraction, clinical and medical data mining, health data analysis and management, big data and smart health, and healthcare intelligent systems and clinical practice.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2018. The 14 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They focus on studies on the principles, approaches, models, frameworks, new applications, and effects of using novel information technology to address healthcare problems and improve social welfare. The selected papers are organized into the following topics: smart hospital; online health community; mobile health; medical big data and healthcare machine learning; chronic disease management; and health informatics.

The upcoming trends in healthcare are intended towards improving the overall quality of life. In the past,management of health issues were limited to clinics and hospitals and managing patient’s data and analyzing it. This procedure was difficult and time consuming. A great effort was also needed in diagnosing the cause and type of disease, but this all has changed now. As advancement in research and technologies, a positive impact on healthcare is seen. This book assesses the need and era of smart healthcare and delivers content relevant to current age and time. It describes the trend, usage and practicality of IWMDs i.e. Wearable Medical Device or Sensors (WMSs) and Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) and how they enhance the awareness of daily healthcare.It establishes a relation and conjunction of daily healthcare monitoring with clinical healthcare. A healthcare system is called smart when there is an ability to make decisions, which comes from data analytics. Smart healthcare systems possess capability of data analytics and IoT based services which can be implemented on smart phones using cloud technology. This book discusses various research trends and technologies related to innovations and advancements for smart healthcare systems. It also elaborates challenges, scope upcoming techniques, devices and future directions for smart healthcare systems.The proposed book would in particular benefit researchers interested in interdisciplinary sciences, It would also be of value to faculty, research communities, and researchers from diverse disciplines who aspire to create new and innovative research initiatives.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in July 2018. The 14 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They focus on studies on the principles, approaches, models, frameworks, new applications, and effects of using novel information technology to address healthcare problems and improve social welfare. The selected papers are organized into the following topics: smart hospital; online health community; mobile health; medical big data and healthcare machine learning; chronic disease management; and health informatics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of theInternational Conference for Smart Health, ICSH 2016, held in Haikou, Hainan, China, in December 2016. The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions.They are organized around the following topics: big data and smart health; health data analysis and management; healthcare intelligent systems and clinical practice; medical monitoring and information extraction; clinical and medical data mining.

This book aims to provide a detailed understanding of IoMT-supported applications while engaging premium smart computing methods and improved algorithms in the field of computer science. It contains thirteen chapters discussing various applications under the umbrella of the Internet of Medical Things. These applications geared towards IoMT cloud analysis, machine learning, computer vision and deep learning have enabled the evaluation of the proposed solutions.