Kebira Azbeg

• Professor
• Professor at University of Hassan II Casablanca

A healthy lifestyle encompasses physical, mental, and emotional well-being, with healthcare and nutrition as central components. For those with chronic diseases such as diabetes, effective self-management involves continuous monitoring and dietary adjustments. Understanding the glycemic index (GI) is vital, as it indicates how carbohydrates affect...

In the evolving landscape of health information management, the application of blockchain and edge computing technologies to chronic disease management remains underexplored, despite the urgent need for scalable, secure, and real-time solutions. This systematic review examines the integration of these technologies in healthcare, with a specific foc...

Bipolar disorder is a challenging mental health condition characterized by recurrent periods of depression and mania. Successful management of bipolar disorder necessitates ongoing monitoring of symptoms, triggers, and individual behaviors. The emergence of the Internet of Behaviors (IoB) offers a promising prospect to enhance bipolar disorder mana...

Critical event reporting Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applications need vital requirements (extended network lifetime, reliability, real time responsiveness, and scalability) to be met to ensure outstanding efficiency. Previous frameworks only consider few individual requirements, thus ignoring the other equally important ones. Ensuring that an...

In many developing countries, the healthcare sector is facing several challenges, mainly due to the lack of personal, institutions, and medications in public health systems. Over the past decade, information and communication technology has proved its ability to improve medical quality, reduce costs, and promote data security. Developing countries...

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease which is characterized by a permanently high blood sugar level. A distinction is made between two forms: Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. It is believed that there are around 415 million people between the ages of 20 and 79 worldwide who have some form of diabetes illness today. In Europe, over 60 million...

Nowadays, healthcare is growing rapidly due to the large development of new technologies such as IoT and wearable devices. These devices are widely used to ensure remote patient monitoring. The current implementation is based on a client/server architecture. This raises several challenges regarding security and privacy that make healthcare systems...

Objectives With the rapid evolution and technology advancement, the healthcare sector is evolving day by day. It is taking advantage of different technologies such as Internet of things and Blockchain. Several applications related to daily healthcare activities are adopting the use of these technologies. In this paper, we present a review in which...

With the rapid development in smart medical devices, Internet of things has a large applicability in healthcare sector. The current system is based on a centralized communication with cloud servers. However, this architecture increases security and privacy risks. This paper describes an architecture of a smart healthcare system for remote patient m...

Like any other distributed system, the Blockchain technology relies on consensus algorithms in order to reach agreement and secure its network. Over the past few years, several kinds of consensus algorithms were created in the Blockchain ecosystem. In this paper, we present some main consensus algorithms used by the Blockchain technology. We also p...