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Health Informatics: Challenges and Opportunities

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Signal Processing Techniques for Computational Health Informatics

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Health Informatics (HI) imposes informatics concepts, theories, and practices to real-life circumstances to attain improved health outcomes, which incorporate not only collection and accumulation of data but also data analysis and presentation. A plethora of research activities has been going on in the field of HI due to the widespread of its probable applications. This chapter presents a comprehensive treatise on HI, its potential challenges, opportunities and some recommendations as the future directions for HI. All the pertinent aspects are discussed in this chapter with a view to relating their significance in HI and its applications. On the whole, the chapter ensures the fundamental information one needs to step into the world of HI.

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    Mehedi Hasan Raju

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Mosabber Uddin Ahmed & Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad

  3. Department of Media Intelligent, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad

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Raju, M.H., Ahmed, M.U., Ahad, M.A.R. (2021). Health Informatics: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Ahad, M.A.R., Ahmed, M.U. (eds) Signal Processing Techniques for Computational Health Informatics. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54932-9_10

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