Abstract
The concept of “Smart City” is evolving and increasingly becoming important for modern urban society. The state structures, business and institutions increasingly rely on information technology (IT) in its architectural representation. Such transformation of cities is connected with the growing use of software, server infrastructure and client devices in all the most important municipal services. The construction of infrastructure for these municipal services is a complex task, being solved both at the level of the whole city and at the level of individual directions. “Smart healthcare” is an important part of the “Smart City” concept. It is built on scalable storage systems and a communications platform. With this type of IT support, patient records are stored electronically and distributed where they are needed. Construction of “Smart health” ecosystem has to be addressed steadily and on different levels in order to design an infrastructure integrated in the whole-city concept. This research paper discusses the IT services that underlie the concept of “Smart Healthcare”, and describes a project for developing software and designing a technology infrastructure for the implementation of these services by major medical centers within the framework of the general concept of “Smart City”. The research represents a step-wise analysis of society needs and development of IT-services and application, which are designed to connect the urban infrastructure with inner ecosystem of hospitals. The results of the work can be used as a basis for the design of IT services for e-health and the construction of the “Smart Healthcare” system.
Highlights
The concept of “Smart City” is an emerging paradigm nowadays
Based on the previous studies, the Smart cities are defined by strong foundation on information and communication technologies (ICT) that invest in human and social capital to improve the quality of life of their citizens [1]
A major challenge of “Smart City” concept realization is implementation of e-health system and “Smart healthcare” as a whole on many different levels of urban life of citizens to build a system of healthcare services, influencing the overall wealth level and quality of life
Summary
The concept of “Smart City” is an emerging paradigm nowadays. Based on the previous studies, the Smart cities are defined by strong foundation on information and communication technologies (ICT) that invest in human and social capital to improve the quality of life of their citizens [1]. A vast variety of applications are developed in attempts to evolve the paradigm of ehealth, m-health and Smart healthcare in big cities [3] One of those examples is the StepUp application. The key goal of this solution is to increase awareness and understanding the importance of physical activities and facilitate the integration of regular exercise into their daily life [4] Another example of an application, which fits the Smart Healthcare concept, could be A Mobile Personal Trainer (MOPET). The core concept of WorldWideCare is building the bridge between hospitals infrastructure and urban area by means of ICT in order to increase the quality of life of citizens This is approach, which has not been discussed yet in current researches and practices, because its main focus is considerably wider than inner healthcare services of medical centers. The solutions aims to provide healthcare services continuously and ubiquitously in “Smart City”
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