Title: Healthcare services: applications, trend, and challenges

Authors: Abderrazak Sebaa; Nabil Djebari; Abdelkamel Tari

Addresses: LIMED Laboratory, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria; Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Computing and Digital (ESTIN), Amizour, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria ' LIMED Laboratory, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria ' LIMED Laboratory, Faculty of Exact Sciences, University of Bejaia, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria; Higher School of Sciences and Technologies of Computing and Digital (ESTIN), Amizour, 06000, Bejaia, Algeria

Abstract: Recently, a large amount of heterogeneous health-related data and services are generated daily. Therefore, managing these medical flows of data and services requires complex and costly techniques. Moreover, the big service paradigm has received growing attention in various disciplines. This study aims to review and investigate the impact of service computing on health and medical sector. It illustrates the big service challenges, applications and describes how healthcare will benefit from service computing advances. A number of potential research opportunities related to the big service computing paradigm and underlying issues that require longer-term work are also discussed in this paper.

Keywords: big service; big data; web service; medical services.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2024.136977

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2024 Vol.16 No.2, pp.161 - 172

Received: 06 Aug 2021
Accepted: 11 Jan 2022
Published online: 01 Mar 2024 *

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