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Healthcare supply chain domain and medical records’ management face numerous challenges that come with new demands, such as customer dissatisfaction, rising healthcare costs, tracking and traceability of drugs, and security and privacy related to ...

• IoT blockchain architecture for preventing access violations in health supply chain.
• Blockchain combined with IoT offers a reliable way to protect medical data.
• Hyperledger Fabric protects sensitive data in a P2P distributed and ...

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) utilizes artificial intelligence models to analyze real-time data like accelerometer data to recognize daily human activities. While it greatly benefits the life of senior citizens and ...

With the rapid development of smart health and online medical platforms, efficient doctor-patient matching has become a crucial factor affecting service quality. Traditional matching mechanisms mainly focus on patients selecting doctors, seldom ...

With the reopening post-pandemic and the advancement of smart healthcare, online consultations have gradually become one of the primary means of health management due to their convenience and low cost. However, the uncertainty in different modalities ...

With the rapid development of Internet and smart medicine, online medical platform has gradually become an important channel to meet the basic medical needs of the public. How to meet the needs of patients and achieve precise matching between doctors and ...

In telemedicine, a critical focus of online medical platforms is to improve patient satisfaction by providing doctor-patient consultation dispatching services based on patient demand and doctor capacity. Existing literatures shedding lights on the ...

Voice assistants have emerged as a promising avenue for delivering healthcare services due to their accessibility and user-friendly nature. This paper explores the potential for enhancing these platforms through increased customization options for ...

Permissioned blockchains can provide high security and reliability for various Internet of Things (IoT) systems, such as smart healthcare and vehicular networks. However, the performance issues of permissioned blockchains have been a constraint ...

• We propose a priority ordering method in blockchain to enhancing the performance.
• We present a fast retransmission method to mitigates the impact of conflicts on latency.
• We propose a DRL-based approach to automatically optimize ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of heterogeneous devices such as wearables and monitoring devices that collect data to provide autonomous decision-making and smart applications. IoT technologies, such as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)...

• The implementation of Internet of Things technologies faces social challenges.
• The challenges include privacy and surveillance in our ‘sensor society.’
• We capture individual perceptions and behaviors related to the challenges.
• ...

The implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies faces social challenges, such as privacy and surveillance, in our so-called ‘sensor society.’ This study applies a unique theoretical framework of surveillance culture, consisting of the ...

Sustainable smart city initiatives significantly improve the living standards of citizens and bring significant changes in economic, environmental, and social well-being. Sustainable and remote medical services are vital attributes of modern smart ...$$$$$$

Technology convergence (TC), in which technological innovation occurs by integrating at least two or more existing technologies into hybrid technologies, has been a growing innovation pattern in recent decades. Facing substantial and accelerated ...

Smart Health, with its flexibility and efficiency, has been widely deployed, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, privacy protection mechanisms for Smart Health are not yet well established and still present a number of security ...

• We propose a CP-ABE scheme (PHCA) that supports policy-hiding and cloud auditing.
• Our scheme ensures data integrity and privacy.
• Our scheme is proven secure under dual-system encryption technique.

Wearables are an important source of big data, as they provide real-time high-resolution data logs of health indicators of individuals. Higher-order associations between pairs of variables is common in wearables data. Representing higher-order association ...

Mole pattern changes are important elements in detecting cancerous skin lesions, the early stage detection is a key factor to completely cure the pathology. In this paper, an automatic system for mole-tracking is indicated. The method presented is ...

Rapid advancement in ICT is promoting us into an era of unprecedented prosperity & countless possibilities. However, there is one gloomy side of the ICT technology that contributes toward the inflation of carbon footprint. Research ...

• ECC-based certificateless signature scheme with compact aggregation.
• Fine-...

Very recently, a number of intelligent applications have evolved in smart cities such as smart grid, smart parking, smart waste management, smart manufacturing, smart home, and smart health, making our cities more smarter. In the ...

The main driver of the digital transformation currently underway is undoubtedly artificial intelligence (AI). The potential of AI to benefit humanity and its environment is undeniably enormous. AI can definitely help find new solutions to the most ...

Using a single Kinect device for human skeleton tracking and motion tracking lacks of reliability required in sports medicine and rehabilitation domains. Human joints reconstructed from non-standard poses such as squatting, sitting and lying are ...

The terrible cost of injuries and sudden illnesses does have fatal consequences that exposes the limitations of the current prehospital processes in terms of time for emergency staff to arrive on scene and lack of first aid skills among the ...