The development of cyber-physical system in health care industry

Abstract

A cyber physical system involves the combination of sensors, actuators, and computation modules to solve issues that lie across the physical and computational areas. This emerging technology will lead to a significant improvement in the health care industry and also will enhance the quality of life of our communities, including older and disabled persons. Our objective in this chapter is to give insights from the current research to provide future perspectives for scientific research and development. We reviewed the current research and inventions in the field of cyber physical systems (CPS) focusing on the health care industry where computational intelligence is used for decision support. In this chapter, we discuss the current state of the art and trends in cyber physical system in health care industry and summarize the issues that need to be overcome. We conclude by identifying the future challenges in this technology that needs to be addressed in order to identify and facilitate priority research in this emerging field. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore.