Smart city and Smart-Health framework, challenges and opportunities

Abstract

The new age of mobile health is accompanied with wider implementation of ubiquitous and pervasive mobile communication and computing, that in turn, has brought enormous opportunities for organizations and governments to reconsider their healthcare concept. Alongside, the global process of urbanization signifies a daunting test and attracts the expert concentration towards towns that can obtain significant high populations and service people in a human and efficient approach. The consistent need of these two trends led to evolution of the concept of smart cities plus mobile healthcare. The given article is intended to provide an overview of smart health, explained to be context-aware that is accompanied by mobile health within the smart cities. The purpose of the article is to offer a standpoint on the main fields of research and knowledge explained in the procedure of establishment of the new idea. Furthermore, the article will also focus on major opportunities and challenges that are implied by s-health and will offer a common opportunity for future research.