Global Digital Transformation and the Covid-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has pushed companies, schools, and healthcare institutions over the technology tipping point--and transformed the business of healthcare forever. This timely book, Global Digital Transformation Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, explores this transformation by looking at the adoption of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that have proven effective in the medical context. These technologies are now being used to improve treatment efficiency, avoid the risk of false diagnosis, make therapeutic decisions, and predict the outcome of many clinical scenarios, especially the COVID-19 pandemic.

The book begins with the fundamentals of computer intelligence, related techniques, and procedures. This book describes the cutting-edge methods of new information technology used in healthcare, addressing the problem of effective data analysis and storage in healthcare institutions.

The volume provides an overview of communication technology for combating the COVID-19 pandemic and delves into mobile application technology, medical diagnosis technology, transmission dynamics prediction models, social media and technology instruction design in teaching amid COVID-19, post-pandemic crowd safety provisioning applications, to name a few.

The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research advances discussed here will be valuable for academics, engineers, industry professionals, researchers, scientists, and students working in the fields of data and information science.

Rajdeep Chowdhury, PhD (1982-2020), was an eminent academician, trend-setting author, and award-winning poet. He had more than 12 years working experience in academics. His research areas included cryptography, data warehouse, data mining, network security, etc. He authored and presented more than 90 research papers in international and national journals and conferences, He has authored/edited 15 books with seven others in preparation. He has also been program committee member for more than 120 international conferences in various parts of the world and advisory board member for numerous international conferences. Dr. Chowdhury was on the editorial board of more than 30 international journals and holds three published patents. His articles, poems, and stories have been widely anthologized in more than 60 anthologies, e-zines and periodicals, both in India and abroad. Dr. Chowdhury’s authored innovative and unique book POISINE: Bengali Cuisine with Poetry (Level 1: Starters) is in Asia Pacific Records. He delivered more than 30 keynote addresses and invited lectures at international and national conferences, seminars, and symposiums all over the globe. Dr. Chowdhury was the recipient of many prestigious awards and recognitions.

K. Martin Sagayam, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Communications Engineering at Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences (Deemed to be University), India. He has authored/co-authored several papers in refereed international journals. He has also presented many papers at reputed international and national conferences. He has authored and edited several books and has published over 15 book chapters with reputed international publishers. He has three Indian patents and three Australian patents for his innovations. He has appreciated as best reviewer for the journals Signal, Image and Video Processing; Intelligent Decision Technologies; International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology; Pattern Analysis and Applications, and the Informing Science Institute. He is an active member of professional bodies.

Neyara Radwan, PhD, is a staff member in two universities in two different countries: Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She is working as Associate Professor and the Quality Assurance Officer for the PhD program at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia as well as in the Mechanical Department, Faculty of Engineering at Suez Canal University, Egypt. She has participated in more than 40 international conferences as a keynote speaker in many countries, including Singapore, Italy, India, the US, the Philippines, and more. She has collaborated on many academic international projects and published many papers in high-quality peer-reviewed journals. Moreover, she is serving as an editorial board member as well as a reviewer for many high-quality international academic journals. She is an active member in many international academic communities, such as Board of Directors of Accord University, Somalia; Asia Logistics and Supply Chain Council, Malaysia; and the Global Education Policy Network, which is sponsored by Prince Sultan University (Saudi Arabia) and The State University of New York at Buffalo (US), 2020. She has been selected to be a member of the World Association of Professional Scientists (WAPS), Springer. In addition, she is a Country Advisor for Positive Thoughts, a nonprofit organization in India. She has a full membership in the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, based in Italy. In 2022, she was nominated from G100 as the Country Chair for Saudi Arabia for the Engineering Wing. G100 is a group of 100 global women leaders. Its vision is to create an equal, progressive, and inclusive environment for women worldwide. Recently in 2022, she has been chosen to be the Egyptian Ambassador in the international Human Rights Commission organization based in Denmark.

Ahmed A. Elngar, PhD, is the Founder and Head of Scientific Innovation Research Group and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt, where he is also a Director of the Technological and Informatics Studies Center, Faculty of Computers and Information. Dr. Elngar has more than 25 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and over five books covering such diverse topics as data mining, intelligent systems, social networks, and smart environment. Dr. Elngar participates in many activities in the community and in environmental services, which include organizing workshops hosted by universities in almost all the governorates of Egypt. He has also organized a workshop on smartphone techniques and their role in the development of visually impaired skills in various walks of life.