Design, Challenges and Applications of Healthcare Machinery, Device and Sensors
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Machine Design and Theory".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 2313
Special Issue Editors
Interests: robotics; e-health; control engineering
Interests: blockchain; IoT
Interests: mechatronics; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; exoskeleton robotics; machine learning; stroke rehabilitation; robot operating system (ROS); IoT; national instrument; sensors; deep learning; intelligent systems; robotics; modeling and simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of technology to improve healthcare has grown increasingly popular over the past decade. Governments around the world, in the public sector as well as the private sector, have put in place policies to provide technology-enabled health services. This process has been especially accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many innovative hardware/software solutions have been incorporated into healthcare, leading to significant discoveries and remarkable improvement in the this sector.
The goal of technology incorporation is to improve the quality of medical care and quality of life for people with disabilities, to solve health-related situations in more effective ways and settle problems that could not be solved prior to technological solutions.
Despite this success in integrating technological solutions into the health service, many technologies are not being used as much or as intended, and targeted efficiency goals are not always being achieved. In fact, the healthcare sector is facing many challenges in light of today’s digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution, which have seen the incorporation of intelligence, big data and IoT for the further development of the healthcare system. It is clear that there is room for improvement in the development, implementation and evaluation of the healthcare system.
In this context, this Special Issue will focus on the design, challenges and applications of healthcare machinery, devices and sensors. Topics of interest include tools, equipment, sensors, machines, devices and all kinds of healthcare-related applications, as well as challenges currently facing healthcare systems.
Dr. Yassine Bouteraa
Dr. Imdad Ullah
Dr. Ben Abdallah Ismail
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- e-health
- intelligent healthcare
- IoT-based healthcare systems
- assistive technology
- wearable devices
- robotics for medical applications
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