Energy Efficiency of Medical Devices and Healthcare Applications

Energy Efficiency of Medical Devices and Healthcare Facilities provides comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research, and commercial solutions in this field. The authors discuss energy-related challenges, such as energy-efficient design, including renewable energy, of different medical devices from a hardware and mechanical perspectives, as well as energy management solutions and techniques in healthcare networks and facilities. They also discuss energy-related trade-offs to maximize the medical devices availability, especially battery-operated ones, while providing immediate response and low latency communication in emergency situations, sustainability and robustness for chronic disease treatment, in addition to high protection against cyber-attacks that may threaten patients’ lives. Finally, the book examines technologies and future trends of next generation healthcare from an energy efficiency and management point of view, such as personalized or smart health and the Internet of Medical Things — IoMT, where patients can participate in their own treatment through innovative medical devices and software applications and tools. The books applied approach makes it a useful resource for engineering researchers and practitioners of all levels involved in medical devices development, healthcare systems, and energy management of healthcare facilities. Graduate students in mechanical and electric engineering, and computer science students and professionals also benefit.

Provides in-depth knowledge and understanding of the benefits of energy efficiency in the design of medical devices and healthcare networks and facilitiesPresents best practices and state-of-art techniques and commercial solutions in energy management of healthcare networks and systemsExplores key energy tradeoffs to provide scalable, robust, and effective healthcare systems and networks

1. Energy-efficient electromechanical design of robotic and artificial organs 2. Hardware design and nanotechnology of Implantable medical devices with emphasis on energy efficiency and renewable energy 3. Energy-efficient wireless medical sensors for smart health applications 4. Energy-efficient solutions and systems for patients’ action recognition and tracking 5. Energy-efficient telecommunication systems for remote monitoring applications 6. Energy management solutions and techniques for medical systems and facilities 7. Sustainability and scalability of healthcare systems: energy perspective 8. Next generation internet of medical things and systems: energy-related issues and techniques 9. Edge and fog computing for medical systems and applications: energy perspective 10. Energy-efficient cybersecurity techniques and solutions for wearable and implantable medical devices 11. Blockchain solutions and frameworks for energy management and medical data exchange 12. Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions and techniques for energy efficiency in healthcare systems