Impacts and Value Chains of the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum in the Healthcare Sector

Intelligent IT systems in the health sector hold the potential of simplifying and automating processes while making them also more reliable and safer, enhancing patient care, improving diagnostics and monitoring in different fields, supporting the decisions of doctors and thereby relieving the medical staff. The development of AI algorithms as well as Edge, Cloud and IoT technologies in recent decades created new possibilities in many different domains. The possibility of analysing large amounts of data shows many benefits of deploying those approaches to deliver personalised treatments.