Big data in healthcare:Conceptual network structure,key challenges and opportunities

Big data is a concept that deals with large or complex data sets by using data analysis tools(e.g.,data mining,machine learning)to analyze information extracted from several sources systematically.Big data has attracted wide attention from academia,for example,in supporting patients and health professionals by improving the accuracy of decision-making,diagnosis and disease prediction.This research aimed to perform a Bibliometric Performance and Network Analysis(BPNA)supported by a Scoping Review(SR)to depict the strategic themes,thematic evolution structure,main challenges and opportunities related to the concept of big data applied in the healthcare sector.With this goal in mind,4857 documents from the Web of Science covering the period between 2009 to June 2020 were analyzed with the support of SciMAT software.The bibliometric performance showed the number of publications and citations over time,scientific productivity and the geographic distribution of publications and research fields.The strategic diagram yielded 20 clusters and their relative importance in terms of centrality and density.The thematic evolution structure presented the most important themes and how it changes over time.Lastly,we presented the main challenges and future opportunities of big data in healthcare.

Visual Analysis of Digital Healthcare Based on CiteSpace

Objective: Digital healthcare is rapidly becoming a new model for medical development in the information society with its convenience, and personalization, and a research boom in digital healthcare has formed at home and abroad in recent years. The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the field of digital healthcare and to understand the research background and development trend in this field. Methods: A visual analysis of authors, institutions, journals and keywords was conducted using CiteSpace 5.8R3 software. Results: A total of 1646 digital healthcare-related retrieved from WoS and PubMed studies. There was an overall upward trend in the number of digital healthcare publications, with the highest number of publications in 2021 (290). The author AZIZ SHEIKH is ranked first in the number of published articles (13), while King Saud University (23) is the research institution with the most articles. Keyword clustering showed that the first cluster was data security;the common high frequency keywords that appeared were systems (85), artificial intelligence (82), mobile health (70), internet (61), and technology (57). Digital healthcare, artificial intelligence, healthcare services, machine learning and deep learning are the hotspot of current research. Conclusion: This paper summarises the state of the art in digital healthcare research. Using statistical analysis and network visualisation, it highlights the background, trends and hot topics in digital healthcare research. The paper finds that there is significant potential for artificial intelligence to help bridge the digital divide and reduce health inequalities. To understand the current state, hot trends and future directions of digital healthcare research, this paper can serve as a reference. .

Comprehensive and personalized approach is a critical area for developing remote cardiac rehabilitation programs

In the evolving landscape of cardiac rehabilitation(CR),adopting digital technologies,including synchronous/real-time digital interventions and smart applications,has emerged as a transformative approach.These technologies offer realtime health data access,continuous vital sign monitoring,and personalized educational enhanced patient self-management and engagement.Despite their potential benefits,challenges and limitations exist,necessitating careful consideration.Synchronous/real-time digital CR involves remote,two-way audiovisual communication,addressing issues of accessibility and promoting home-based interventions.Smart applications extend beyond traditional healthcare,providing real-time health data and fostering patient empowerment.Wearable devices and mobile apps enable continuous monitoring,tracking of rehabilitation outcomes,and facilitate lifestyle modifications crucial for cardiac health maintenance.As digital CR progresses,ensuring patient access,equitable implementation,and addressing the digital divide becomes paramount.Artificial intelligence holds promise in the early detection of cardiac events and tailoring patient-specific CR programs.However,challenges such as digital literacy,data privacy,and security must be addressed to ensure inclusive implementation.Moreover,the shift toward digital CR raises concerns about cost,safety,and potential depersonalization of therapeutic relationships.A transformative shift towards technologically enabled CR necessitates further research,focusing not only on technological advancements but also on customization to meet diverse patient needs.Overcoming challenges related to cost,safety,data security,and potential depersonalization is crucial for the widespread adoption of digital CR.Future studies should explore integrating moral values into digital therapeutic relationships and ensure that digital CR is accessible,equitable,and seamlessly integrated into routine cardiac care.Theoretical frameworks that accommodate the dynamic quality of real-time monitoring and feedback feature of digital CR interventions should be considered to guide intervention development.

Quality 4.0 technologies to enhance traditional Chinese medicine for overcoming healthcare challenges during COVID-19

The Quality 4.0 concept is derived from the industrial fourth revolution,i.e.,Industry 4.0.Quality 4.0 is the future of quality,where new digital and disruptive technologies are used to maintain quality in organizations.It is also suitable for traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)to maintain quality.This quality revolution aims to improve industrial and service sectors’quality by incorporating emerging technologies to connect physical systems with the natural world.The proposed digital philosophy can update and enhance the entire TCM treatment methodology to become more effective and attractive in the current competitive structure of the pharmaceutical and clinical industries.Thus,in healthcare,this revolution empowers quality treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.There is a major requirement in healthcare to maintain the quality of medical tools,equipment,and treatment processes during a pandemic.Digital technologies can widely be used to provide innovative products and services with excellent quality for TCM.In this paper,we discuss the significant role of Quality 4.0 and how it can be used to maintain healthcare quality and fulfill challenges during the pandemic.Additionally,we discuss 10 significant applications of Quality 4.0 in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.These technologies will provide unique benefits to maintain the quality of TCM throughout the treatment process.With Quality 4.0,quality can be maintained using innovative and advanced digital technologies.

Network Intrusion Detection in Internet of Blended Environment Using Ensemble of Heterogeneous Autoencoders(E-HAE)

Contemporary attackers,mainly motivated by financial gain,consistently devise sophisticated penetration techniques to access important information or data.The growing use of Internet of Things(IoT)technology in the contemporary convergence environment to connect to corporate networks and cloud-based applications only worsens this situation,as it facilitates multiple new attack vectors to emerge effortlessly.As such,existing intrusion detection systems suffer from performance degradation mainly because of insufficient considerations and poorly modeled detection systems.To address this problem,we designed a blended threat detection approach,considering the possible impact and dimensionality of new attack surfaces due to the aforementioned convergence.We collectively refer to the convergence of different technology sectors as the internet of blended environment.The proposed approach encompasses an ensemble of heterogeneous probabilistic autoencoders that leverage the corresponding advantages of a convolutional variational autoencoder and long short-term memory variational autoencoder.An extensive experimental analysis conducted on the TON_IoT dataset demonstrated 96.02%detection accuracy.Furthermore,performance of the proposed approach was compared with various single model(autoencoder)-based network intrusion detection approaches:autoencoder,variational autoencoder,convolutional variational autoencoder,and long short-term memory variational autoencoder.The proposed model outperformed all compared models,demonstrating F1-score improvements of 4.99%,2.25%,1.92%,and 3.69%,respectively.