Smart cities offer the usage of digital technology to enhance the quality of life for city residents. The goal of these cities is to deal with some of the issues that are projected to arise in future cities, enabling more efficient and sustainable resource management, among other benefits. Through technology innovation and data-driven decision-making, smart cities have the potential to make societies safer, more efficient, and more resilient. Healthcare is important for the thriving growth of smart cities, and providing high-quality medical care is the municipal government's most difficult duty. Smart healthcare is a realistic solution for the health care industry to intelligently manage patient flow systems. Adoption of smart healthcare reduces costs and improves illness management. However, as the scale of wearable medical devices increases, preserving privacy and security becomes more difficult. However, clever security measures will be required to ensure that these advancements are not jeopardized. This chapter aims to examine the role of cyber security in the development of smart city healthcare, as well as the key challenges and benefits of the cyber security in the smart city healthcare systems.
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The smart city (Sanchez-Corcuera et al., 2019) ecosystem makes use of communicationand information technology to offer a variety of e-government services to ensure the quality and smooth access to participating residents with these services. However, at the same time, this advancement had drawbacks as well, altering society in terms of global warming, air pollution, etc. According to NATO, these consequences could eventually cause significant issues for both the population and the ecology. These include things like population expansion, global warming, and air pollution (NATO Review, 2011).
A city is considered intelligent when traditional infrastructure and human resource investments support a strong economy and high quality of life through the utilization of integrated technologies. The smart cities provide a networked urban civilization that gains from intelligent operation management of its operations while accumulating minimum financial, administrative, and social costs. (Caragliu et al., 2011). Any nation whose smart city is penetrated would face major threats to its national security because of this.
As more people relocate to urban regions in search of better economic and educational opportunities, this number is expected to increase. Resource conservation, environmental protection, and a better quality of life for city residents are all benefits of smart cities. A vast variety of services are offered to residents of smart cities including transportation, environment, healthcare, tourism, safety, security etc. Data is gathered on a huge scale using a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This will produce enormous amounts of data that can be applied to public services as well as applications for efficiency, safety, and entertainment.
The quality of life for urban dwellers may be improved by IoT. With the world's population growing at an incredible rate and the prevalence of chronic diseases rising, it is becoming more and more vital to design affordable healthcare systems that can offer a wide range of medical services while loweringtotalcosts (Rathi et al., 2021). IoT has recently emerged as a major area of development, paving the way for the advancement of healthcare monitoring systems. Accurately tracking individuals and connecting disparate services and objects globally over the internet is the goal of the IoT healthcare monitoring system. Data created by these devices will be gathered, shared, monitored, stored, and analyzed (Bhatia et al., 2021).
Through technology innovation and data-driven decision-making, smart cities have the potential to build communities that are safer, more efficient, and resilient. The public's safety and health, national security, economic security, and the operation of vital infrastructure could all be impacted by potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited. Managing this large volume of data over the course of its existence is essential to the realization of healthcare in smart cities. The data management process, which includes data collection, data processing, and gathering, is depicted in Figure 1. Every new city infrastructure or technology presents an entirely new chance for cyberattacks. One of the areas of smart cities that are expanding the fastest is healthcare, although the development of such systems is hampered by security and privacy issues by the authors Barrett (2018) and Balasubramanlan (Bhatia et al., 2018).
Figure 1. Healthcare data management lifecycle in smart city environment