Fog Computing Enabled Healthcare 4.0

Industry 4.0 has revolutionized the utilization of information technology (IT) in the contemporary scenario. Different disruptive technologies have imparted their contribution in the success of Industry 4.0. In the transition from Industry 1.0 to 4.0, the ideas from mechanical to electrical engineering, from electrical to telecommunication and information technology and then artificial intelligence have switched abruptly. Artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics (BDA) and machine learning (ML) contributed its leading role. The competence of artificial intelligence brings machine at the capability to handle the human health issues. In Healthcare 4.0, the whole efforts are to resolve the multi-dimensional problems of treatments faced in daily life. Healthcare 4.0 is the rebellion paradigm where hospital-centric environment, artificial intelligence and computing resources are integrated to provide the real-time treatment to patients. The fog computing can play the major role for real-time treatment. This paper illustrates the applicability of fog computing in Healthcare 4.0 and the transition of hospital-centric healthcare (HCH) system to patient-centric care (PCC). The solution for tracking health record is also proposed in this paper by analysing the case study of diabetic patient in India.