The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey
Over the past two years, the spread of COVID-19 has spurred the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in aid of healthcare. The need to guarantee continuity to care has promoted research and industry activities aimed at developing solutions for the digitalization of the procedures...
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| author | Chiara Suraci Vincenzo De Angelis Giuseppina Lofaro Michele Lo Giudice Giuseppe Marrara Federica Rinaldi Antonia Russo Martina Teresa Bevacqua Gianluca Lax Nadia Mammone Antonino Mazza Laboccetta Francesco Carlo Morabito Giuseppe Araniti |
| author_facet | Chiara Suraci Vincenzo De Angelis Giuseppina Lofaro Michele Lo Giudice Giuseppe Marrara Federica Rinaldi Antonia Russo Martina Teresa Bevacqua Gianluca Lax Nadia Mammone Antonino Mazza Laboccetta Francesco Carlo Morabito Giuseppe Araniti |
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| description | Over the past two years, the spread of COVID-19 has spurred the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in aid of healthcare. The need to guarantee continuity to care has promoted research and industry activities aimed at developing solutions for the digitalization of the procedures to be performed to provide health services, even in emergency scenarios. Digital collection, transmission, and processing of health data represent the starting point for fulfilling this innovation process but also bring heterogeneous challenges. These motivations led to the elaboration of this work, which analyzes innovative and technological tools for the development of digital health (eHealth) through the collection of multisectoral literature, produced thanks to the cooperation of varied research groups, thus providing a multidisciplinary survey. Since digital health is expected to be one of the leading applications of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless cellular networks, this paper covers the related telecommunications aspects. Furthermore, the exploitation of artificial intelligence paradigms to elaborate massive amounts of biological data is examined. Given the extreme sensitivity of health data, this paper also investigates security and privacy issues. In particular, the main techniques and approaches to guarantee security properties (i.e., anonymity, responsibility, authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, and revocability) are studied. Applications involving innovative electromagnetic systems for healthcare and assisted living services are described to provide an example of an eHealth scenario leveraging ICT. Finally, the telemedicine-related regulations of the European Commission are analyzed, with particular reference to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b289f01ffc8b4c75af3217b1dd3dac582022-12-31T00:01:31ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-011013462313464610.1109/ACCESS.2022.32314469996365The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary SurveyChiara Suraci0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7048-2071Vincenzo De Angelis1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9731-3641Giuseppina Lofaro2Michele Lo Giudice3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-0405Giuseppe Marrara4Federica Rinaldi5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8036-7464Antonia Russo6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3038-8574Martina Teresa Bevacqua7https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6557-1283Gianluca Lax8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5226-0870Nadia Mammone9https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4962-3500Antonino Mazza Laboccetta10Francesco Carlo Morabito11https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-9136Giuseppe Araniti12https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8670-9413Department of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials (DICEAM), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDIGIES Department, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Civil Engineering, Energy, Environment and Materials (DICEAM), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyOver the past two years, the spread of COVID-19 has spurred the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in aid of healthcare. The need to guarantee continuity to care has promoted research and industry activities aimed at developing solutions for the digitalization of the procedures to be performed to provide health services, even in emergency scenarios. Digital collection, transmission, and processing of health data represent the starting point for fulfilling this innovation process but also bring heterogeneous challenges. These motivations led to the elaboration of this work, which analyzes innovative and technological tools for the development of digital health (eHealth) through the collection of multisectoral literature, produced thanks to the cooperation of varied research groups, thus providing a multidisciplinary survey. Since digital health is expected to be one of the leading applications of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless cellular networks, this paper covers the related telecommunications aspects. Furthermore, the exploitation of artificial intelligence paradigms to elaborate massive amounts of biological data is examined. Given the extreme sensitivity of health data, this paper also investigates security and privacy issues. In particular, the main techniques and approaches to guarantee security properties (i.e., anonymity, responsibility, authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, and revocability) are studied. Applications involving innovative electromagnetic systems for healthcare and assisted living services are described to provide an example of an eHealth scenario leveraging ICT. Finally, the telemedicine-related regulations of the European Commission are analyzed, with particular reference to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9996365/eHealthtelemedicine6Gdatasecurityartificial intelligence |
| spellingShingle | Chiara Suraci Vincenzo De Angelis Giuseppina Lofaro Michele Lo Giudice Giuseppe Marrara Federica Rinaldi Antonia Russo Martina Teresa Bevacqua Gianluca Lax Nadia Mammone Antonino Mazza Laboccetta Francesco Carlo Morabito Giuseppe Araniti The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey IEEE Access eHealth telemedicine 6G data security artificial intelligence |
| title | The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey |
| title_full | The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey |
| title_fullStr | The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey |
| title_short | The Next Generation of eHealth: A Multidisciplinary Survey |
| title_sort | next generation of ehealth a multidisciplinary survey |
| topic | eHealth telemedicine 6G data security artificial intelligence |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9996365/ |
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