Challenges and Future Trends of Smart Healthcare Based on AI-Empowered IoT
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 1466
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Dear Colleagues,
Smart healthcare, driven by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and empowered by artificial intelligence (AI), offers significant potential for reshaping healthcare delivery and management. This Special Issue aims to gather original research and review articles addressing the challenges and future trends in leveraging AI-empowered IoT for enhancing healthcare systems. With the integration of IoT devices, sensors, data analytics, and AI capabilities, smart healthcare offers opportunities for personalized patient monitoring, efficient resource allocation, remote diagnostics, and proactive intervention. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- IoT-enabled medical devices and wearables;
- Remote patient monitoring systems;
- Data analytics for healthcare decision making;
- Security and privacy in IoT-enabled healthcare systems;
- Telemedicine and telehealth solutions;
- Health data interoperability and integration;
- AI and machine learning applications in smart healthcare;
- IoT-based medication adherence and management;
- Smart healthcare infrastructure and architecture;
- Reviews on challenges in IoT-enabled healthcare systems;
- Reviews on future trends and advancements in smart healthcare based on IoT.
Dr. Liang Zhao
Dr. Maria Valero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart healthcare
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- remote patient monitoring
- data analytics
- telemedicine
- AI in healthcare
- healthcare IoT security
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