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Health Informatics Applications in Healthcare and Society 5.0

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Social determinants are fundamental factors in healthcare and are key in a sustainable society. Society 5.0 concept is based on a future intelligent sustainable society that can enable and drive economic development of its own citizens, while ensuring health equities, social upliftment, and equalities using modern-day technology solutions. The ability of Society 5.0 in data management and analysis renders health informatics a potent tool in advancing Society 5.0 and healthcare. Health informatics is the intersection of various “informatics” fields, including clinical bioinformatics, biological bioinformatics, image informatics, translational bioinformatics, and public health informatics. Health informatics is key in the implementation and success of Society 5.0, thus enhancing the “health is wealth” concept. Society 5.0 aims at bridging inequality gaps in society through the construction of reliable, equitable, and optimized healthcare system that will benefit all people of its society. However, ethical concerns regarding patient data sharing, management, analysis, and security have been major obstacles in efficient applications of health informatics in healthcare, posing as threats of human rights and privacy invasion and loss of what it means to be human. This chapter will discuss the health informatics applications and their limitations in healthcare and Society 5.0 toward building an equitable super-smart healthcare system and ensuring sustainable development.

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  1. SAMRC Precision Oncology Research Unit (PORU), DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Precision Oncology and Cancer Prevention (POCP), Pan African Cancer Research Institute (PACRI), University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

    Rahaba Marima, Thulo Molefi, Richard Khanyile, Mandisa Mbeje & Zodwa Dlamini

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Marima, R. et al. (2023). Health Informatics Applications in Healthcare and Society 5.0. In: Dlamini, Z. (eds) Society 5.0 and Next Generation Healthcare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36461-7_2

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