The health technology has become a hot topic in academic research. It employs the theory of social networks into the different levels of the prediction and analysis and has brought new possibilities for the development of technology. This book is a descriptive summary of challenges and methods using disease identification with various case studies from diverse authors across the globe.
One of the new buzzwords in healthcare sector which has become popular over years is health informatics. Healthcare professionals must deal with an increasing number of computers and computer programmes in their daily work. With rapid growth of digital data, the role of analytics in healthcare has created significant impact on healthcare professional's life. Improvements in storage data, computational power & parallelization has also contributed to uptake this technology. This book is for researchers, health informatics professionals, academicians and UG, PG students interested to know more about health informatics. It aims to provide a brief overview about Informatics, its history & area of practice, laws in health informatics, challenges & technologies in health informatics, application of informatics in various sectors & so on. Finally, the research avenues in health informatics along with some case studies are discussed.
About the Author: Dr. Gururaj H L Is currently working as Associate Professor, Department of IT, Dept. of IT, Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India. He is a professional member of ACM and works as ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is the founder of Wireless Internetworking Group (WiNG). He is a Senior member of IEEE and lifetime member of ISTE and CSI. He has received a young scientist award from the Government of India. He has 8 years of teaching experience.at both UG and PG level. His research interests include BlockChain Technology, Cyber Security, Wireless Sensor Network, Ad-hoc networks, IOT, Data Mining, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning. He has guided 30 UG students and 10 PG students. He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Block chains and Cryptocurrencies (IJBC) and editor of EAI publishers. He has published more than 75 research papers including 2 ESCI publications in various international journals such in Science Citation Index, IEEE Access, Springer Book Chapter, Scopus, and UGC refereed journals. He has presented 20 papers at various international Conferences. He has authored 1 Book on Network Simulators. He worked as a reviewer for various journals and conferences.
Prof. Radhika A D has completed her M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. She was working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering Mysore, Karnataka. She is pursuing her Phd from Visvesvaraya Technological University. She has published 9 research papers in various reputed international journals and conferences. Her areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Data science, Machine Learning, and Image Processing.
Prof. Divya C D has completed M.Tech her in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering Mysore, Karnataka. She is pursuing her Phd from Visvesvaraya Technological University. She has published 15 research papers in various reputed international journals and conferences. Her areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Data science, Machine Learning, and Image Processing. She worked as reviewer for various journals and conferences.
Dr. Ravi Kumar V is currently working as Dean Faculty of Computer Sciences, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, India. He received his Ph.D., degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, India. He is a professional member of ACM and lifetime member of ISTE, IETE and CSI. He has 16 years of teaching experience at both UG and PG level. His research interests include BlockChain Technology, Data mining and Machine Learning. He has guided 50 UG students and 18 PG students. He is an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Block chains and Cryptocurrencies (IJBC). He has published more than 52 research papers including 2 ESCI publications in various international journals such in Science Citation Index, IEEE Access, Springer Book Chapter, Scopus, and UGC refereed journals. He has presented 20 papers at various international Conferences. He worked as reviewer for various journals and conferences
Dr. Yu-Chen Hu received his PhD. degree in computer science and information engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan in 1999. Currently, Dr. Hu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Sha-Lu, Taiwan. His research interests include image and signal processing, data compression, information hiding, information security, computer network, and machine learning.
