Academic Press Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology

Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology uncovers the impact that COVID-19 has made on healthcare and technology industries. State-of-the-art case studies, empirical research, and new trends in technology-mediated solution are discussed to help inform and guide readers in understanding the effects that the COVID-19 outbreak has had across healthcare and technology industries. The book discusses challenges to identify vaccines, changes in legislation on clinical trials and re-purposing of licensed drugs, effects on primary healthcare, best practices adopted by different countries to control the pandemic, and different effects on patients within diverse age groups and comorbidities. In addition, the book covers technology-mediated solutions and infrastructures applied, digital transformations, modeling techniques, statistical projections, and the benefits and use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors, researchers and graduate students from both biomedical and technological fields who are interested in learning more about the use of new technologies to fight a pandemic. Review Brings state-of-the-art, innovative research from healthcare and technology industries surrounding their response to COVID-19, both pre- and post-pandemic From the Back Cover <p><i>Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology </i>uncovers the impact that COVID-19 has made on healthcare and technology industries. State-of-the-art case studies, empirical research, and new trends in technology-mediated solution are discussed to help inform and guide readers in understanding the effects that the COVID-19 outbreak has across the healthcare and technology industries. </p> <p>The book discusses topics such as challenges to identify vaccines; changes in legislation on clinical trials and re-purposing of licensed drugs; effects on primary healthcare; best practices adopted by different countries to control the pandemic; and different effects on patients within diverse age groups and comorbidities. In addition, it covers technology-mediated solutions and infrastructures applied; digital transformation; modeling techniques and statistical projections; and benefits and use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. </p> <p>It is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors, researchers, and graduate students from both biomedical and technological fields who are interested in learning more about the use of new technologies to fight a pandemic.</p> About the Author A. Kaklauskas is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Lithuania; Member of the Research Council of Lithuania; Member of the Science Europe working group on Data Sharing and Supporting Infrastructures; Head of the Department of Construction Management and Property; member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; editor-in-chief of Journal of Civil Engineering and Management; editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; and associate editor of Ecological Indicators. He contributed to nine Framework and five Horizon 2020 program projects and participated in over 30 other projects in the EU, US, Africa. and Asia. His publications include nine books and 150 papers. His areas of interest include affective computing; intelligent tutoring systems; affective intelligent tutoring systems; massive open online courses (MOOCS); affective internet of things; smart built environment; intelligent event prediction; opinion mining; intelligent decision support systems; life cycle analyses of built environments; big data and text analytics. Dr. Abraham is the Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a Not-for-Profit Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence connecting Industry and Academia. The Network with HQ in Seattle, USA has currently m