Health 4.0: How Virtualization and Big Data are Revolutionizing Healthcare

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thuemmler, Christoph (Editor), Bai, Chunxue (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Big data.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Health informatics.; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Health Informatics.; Big Data/Analytics.; Health Care Management.

This book describes how the creation of new digital services—through vertical and horizontal integration of data coming from sensors on top of existing legacy systems—that has already had a major impact on industry is now extending to healthcare. The book describes the fourth industrial revolution (...