Internet of Things in Health Care: Challenges and Solutions

Internet of Things

Table of Contents
Abstract.................................................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction...................................................................................................................................2
Problem Domain:...............................................................................................................................3
Research Aim....................................................................................................................................3
Research Questions............................................................................................................................3
2. Literature Review..........................................................................................................................3
3. Issues / Challenges / Solution........................................................................................................7
4. Future Research...........................................................................................................................11
5. Advantages and Disadvantages....................................................................................................11
Advantages of using IOT in health care...........................................................................................11
6. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................13
7. References...................................................................................................................................13

Title: Use of IOT in Health Care
Abstract
In this paper, we are looking forward to analyse the use of IoT in health care medical centre. The
traditional health care centres are facing problems in handling task of managing health records of
the patients. The aim of the research is to analyse the efficiency of IoT in making use in health care
centre. The focus should be given on the pros and cons associated with the intelligent health care
centre. The use of IOT in health care system helps in developing intelligent system which is capable of
providing effective medical services through the remote monitoring program of the patient
instantaneously.
Keywords: IOT, Remote monitoring, RFID
1.
2. Introduction
The technological advancement and
digitization brings tremendous changes in the
working of medical centre in providing health
care services to patient. The automation in the
medical centre helps in resolving inefficiencies
of the tradition working culture of hospitals
and other health care nursing home. The
inclusion of Internet of thing (IOT) in the
health care centre helps in managing remote
monitoring of the patient. The use of IOT in
health care focuses on providing Instant
medical facilities in their home care centre. It
helps in saving life of the patient who is in
critical condition. The IOT health care is the
accumulative unit of video sensors, video
cameras, biometric sensors, heart beat
measuring device, glucose monitoring system,
smart beds, and others. The accumulation of
these devices makes the doctors to analyse the
patient from the remote locations [1]. The
multiple doctors can analyse the patient for
providing instant treatment in emergency
situation. The suggestions from the expert
doctors can be taken to provide quality of
medical service to the patient at risks. The IOT
is most rapidly used by the health care industry
to provide remedial services to the elderly and
emergency patients. The Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) readers are used for
analysing the critical condition of the patient
by tracking the health through the remote
monitoring system. The digitization of the
health care services helps in initiating real time
health monitoring system and creation of
electronic health record system of the patients.
The electronic health record system is the
database which carries the confidential
information of the patients related to their
check-up reports and previous prescriptions
provided by the doctors. The doctors located at
remote places analyse the critical situation of

the patient by analysing the reports of the
patients fetched from electronic health record
system of the patients [2]. The purpose of
using IOT in health care system is to resolve
the complexity faced by the emergency patient
due to the increasing traffic on the road. It
helps in saving the life of the patients to a high
extent by providing instant medical facilities in
their home centre. It makes use of smart
devices for providing medical treatment to the
patient in chronic condition. It facilitates the
patients by providing them medical treatment
in their own home surroundings. In this paper,
we are looking forward to analyse the use of
IoT in health care medical centre.
Problem Domain:
The traditional health care centres are facing
problems in handling task of managing health
records of the patients. It is a problematic
scenario to fetch required information of the
patient from the paper documents of the health
records. It is time consuming process to take
appointment from the doctors, checking
availability of the doctors, confirmation of the
Operation theatre for providing immediate
medical treatment to the emergency patients,
and others. It can result into death cases due to
inefficient in providing instant treatment to the
emergency patients. The complexity is faced
by the emergency patient due to the increasing
traffic on the road to their destination hospitals
[3]. The inclusion of intelligent system helps
in increasing the reachability of the doctors to
the emergency patients to provide instant
treatment in their home care centre.
Research Aim
The aim of the research is to analyse the
efficiency of IoT in making use in health care
centre. The focus should be given on the pros
and cons associated with the intelligent health
care centre.
Research Questions
 What is the need of indulging IOT in
health care centre?
 What are the requirements of using
IOT in medical services?
 What is the use of IoT in health care
centre?
 What are the advantages of using IOT
in health care centre?
 What are the disadvantages of using
IOT in health care centre?
 What is the impact of IoT on patient
health care?
3. Literature Review
The literature review was conducted on the
Internet of thing use in health care
organization to transform the traditional
working of medical centre to an intelligent
health care organization which is efficient in
providing instant medical facilities to the
patient in their own home care. The electronic
health records are developed for providing
information about the patient to the multiple
doctors at a moment. The problem faced by
the traditional working of the health care
centre in managing the health records of the
patients and inefficiency in providing instant
treatment to the patient in critical stage due to
the non-availability of expert doctor and