Rise of the Automotive Health-Domain Controllers: Empowering Healthcare Services in Intelligent Vehicles

We are facing a global healthcare crisis today as the healthcare cost is ever climbing, but with the aging population, government fiscal revenue is ever dropping. To address this imminent problem, we can start by enabling affordable anywhere anytime healthcare access through delivering healthcare services on intelligent vehicles. The foundation upon which healthcare services can be provided on intelligent vehicles is an automotive health-domain controller (AHDC), which is missing today. In this article, for the first time, we explain the necessity and define the functionalities of AHDCs. In addition, we delve into the technical challenges, requirements, and feasibility of integrating multiple key features into AHDCs. It is hoped that this will help the community standardize on-vehicle healthcare services provisioning, and lead to the universal adoption of the revolutionary mobile healthcare system.