Preface

Smart and pervasive healthcare aims at facilitating better healthcare access, provision, and delivery by overcoming spatial and temporal barriers. It provides opportunities to deliver healthcare solutions within complex and restrictive contexts, requiring input from different stakeholders and under demanding circumstances where traditional methods may not be adequate.

More importantly, with the COVID-19 pandemic requiring scientists, researchers, and healthcare providers around the world to rethink access to timely and effective health care and its delivery, the role that smart and pervasive healthcare can play is of growing interest.

This book provides valuable insights into how researchers across the globe are thinking about, working with, and furthering the boundaries of application and use of smart and pervasive healthcare-based solutions.

The content in this book will benefit anyone who is looking to find a way in which future healthcare access and delivery can be better shaped and benefited.

> **Dr. Urvashi Sharma** King's College London, United Kingdom

Section 1
