Improved computing technology combined with IoT-enabled smart devices and the digitization of personal health records (PHRs) has created vast quantities of patient data in recent years. The availability of this data and new processing methods are enabling clinicians to provide better care for patients and has sparked a growing interest in consumer health informatics (CHI) and in the potential of patient-generated health data (PGHD).

• Chapter 1: Introduction to healthcare informatics: fundamentals and historical background
• Chapter 2: Healthcare informatics: an overview of privacy and security
• Chapter 3: Health informatics and its contribution to health sectors
• Chapter 4: Role of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence for healthcare informatics: an overview
• Chapter 5: Blockchain for security and privacy in healthcare informatics
• Chapter 6: Unification of machine learning and blockchain technology in healthcare industry
• Chapter 7: Robotics and process automation technologies for healthcare informatics
• Chapter 8: Evolving technologies: IoT and artificial intelligence for healthcare informatics
• Chapter 9: Confidentiality, integrity, authentication (CIA) model for secured storage and processing of personal health records using Merkle hash tree and recurrent neural networks (RNN)
• Chapter 10: Blockchain technology integrity in health informatics using hyper ledger platform
• Chapter 11: A recent study based on prediction approach over Coronavirus disease-2019 cases in India using regression modeling of artificial intelligence