Smart Healthcare System (SHS): Medical Tourism Delivering, Consumption, and Elevating Tool in the Ages of Smart Technologies

ABSTRACT

Medical tourism has seen a tremendous rise in recent years. At present, technologies are giving a stronger push to medical tourism and integrating its stakeholders under the smart healthcare system (SHS). This study determines the applications of the SHS for medical tourism and how the integration of networks is happening in SHS to benefit medical tourism. The results of this study explain that mobile health, telehealth, blockchain technology, cloud technology, internet of medical things (IoMT), virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are key technological applications in SHS enlarging medical tourism. The applications of SHS provide a safe and strong roof to its stakeholders. This study presents a systematic medical travel process of medical tourists supported by smart technologies and draws some strategies for medical tourism development. Further, the study contributes to the existing body of knowledge and paves a way for enhancing smart healthcare systems and smart medical tourism concepts.

KEYWORDS:

• Internet of medical things
• medical tourism
• mobile health
• smart healthcare system
• smart technologies
• telehealth

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.