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Large-Scale Innovations and Approaches for Community Healthcare Support in Developing Nations

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Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare

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Over the past two decades, many large-scale innovations have been designed for the individuals’ information support in improving public healthcare. Studies show rapidly growing interests on cloud computing and telecommunication-based technologies such as mobile-based innovations that are mainly evident in form of improving the social healthcare support systems for community, organisations and individuals. Approaches for various innovations to healthcare support delivery enable people to build on their strengths and to improve the independence and overall wellbeing in the community. The objective of such innovations for community healthcare has been well-established in developed nations, but still emergent to achieve various goals for many developing nations. A lot of application aspects are therefore under-researched to achieve the outcomes such as for encouraging healthy lifestyle choices [4, 8], for individual’s wellness monitoring [31], and in providing general-healthcare information and advice for self-management [21]. This chapter describes issues of the innovative large-scale technological developments for the community healthcare and well-being in context of developing nations, from an angle of service receivers’ perspective. The discussion in the chapter will also capture on various useful large-scale technologies and their effective provisions. In relation to the software-as-service and other forms of cloud technologies as well as the mobile health infrastructure are discussed as they would be useful for the benefit of healthcare service receivers, and through them how individuals can be able to achieve services in the community for enhanced self-management-oriented healthcare.

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  3. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Miah, S.J. (2017). Large-Scale Innovations and Approaches for Community Healthcare Support in Developing Nations. In: Khan, S., Zomaya, A., Abbas, A. (eds) Handbook of Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare. Scalable Computing and Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58280-1_13

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