The recent COVID-19 global pandemic exemplifies the need for efficient, reliable, and real-time tools and technology for forecasting and predicting healthcare disasters as well as for helping to restrict subsequent spread and fatality of deadly diseases. This new book discusses many of the innovative and state-of-the-art tools and technology that can help meet the challenges of predicting such disasters. The chapters offer a plethora of useful information for designing healthcare disaster management systems that can be dynamically configurable with implementation of today’s modern technology, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, IoT, data analytics, and machine learning. These can increase effectiveness in remote sensing technologies, data analytics, data storage, communication networks, geographic information system (GIS), and global positioning System (GPS), to name a few. The book discusses mathematical models using graph-based approaches for analyzing dynamic, heterogeneous, and unstructured data for applications in epidemiology. The authors also address the use of mobile applications for communication efforts and remote monitoring for gauging health and the effectiveness of preventive healthcare measures. The chapters discuss influencing factors that directly or indirectly target public health infrastructure that can lead to or exacerbate global health crises, such as extreme climate changes, refugee health crises, terrorism and cyberterrorism, and technology-related incidents. The book further looks at efficient methods to analyze disasters and how to deliver healthcare in areas of conflict and crisis. This important volume, Global Healthcare Disasters: Predicting the Unpredictable with Emerging Technologies, provides a bounty of useful information for health professionals, academicians, researchers, governmental agencies, and policymakers across the world to predict, mitigate, and manage global health disaster with emerging technologies.

Information Systems Development- A Software Engineering Approach focuses on the evaluation model of ISs development in software developing SMEs in India. Information systems have to be effective and efficient for long term to keep pace with today's global business scenario. For effectiveness / success, ISs must be developed with the standard and proven methodologies of IS development, like software engineering, for nurturing information systems. These practices are non-prevalent in software developing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Thus a standard model of IS development with a Software Engineering approach is the need of an hour so that SMEs can evaluate the present scenario of IS development practices. The book aims at the design of such model of IS development which reflects the effect of strategic alignment of IS; IS development approach and IS project Management on IS development. The book has been designed to help software professionals, academicians and researchers to identify and evaluate the realization of best practices of IS development in SMEs.