Internet of Things in Healthcare

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Table of Contents
Background................................................................................................................................2
Internet of Things and Healthcare..........................................................................................2
General use of IoT in the Healthcare:....................................................................................4
Aim and Objectives....................................................................................................................6
Literature review:.......................................................................................................................7
Hypothesis................................................................................................................................10
Variance in the standards and Protocols:.............................................................................11
Security and Privacy:...........................................................................................................12
Data overload:......................................................................................................................12
Methodology............................................................................................................................15
Research Philosophy:...........................................................................................................15
Research approach:..............................................................................................................16
Research Design:..................................................................................................................17
Process of data collection:....................................................................................................17
Sampling:.............................................................................................................................18
Data Analysis Method..........................................................................................................19
Expected outcomes...................................................................................................................19
Future work..............................................................................................................................20
PROGRAM OF WORK...........................................................................................................20
Bibliography:............................................................................................................................22

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Background
Health is considered to be the global challenge which is faced by humanity. The
constitutions of the World Health Organization or the WHO has been associated with stating
the fact that the highest standard which is attainable is the fundamental right of every
individual. In order to keep the individuals in a healthy condition there exists a need of
having effective as well as readily available modern healthcare systems1. The healthcare
system which are modernized are associated with providing of an better healthcare services to
the people anytime and anywhere in a manner which is along with being patient friendly is
also economic in nature. Besides all this the recent advancements in the design of the IoT
technologies have been associated with spurring the process of system development for the
purpose of providing support as well as for improving the healthcare as well as biomedical
related processes.
The process of healthcare monitoring system is having an essential need of constant
monitoring of the patients as well as their physiological parameters2. One such example in
case if pregnant women, parameters such as the blood pressure heart rate and many other
parameters needs to be monitored continuously so as to control their health conditions.
Internet of Things and Healthcare
Internet of Things is defined as an arrangement of interrelated gadgets, mechanical
and advanced machines, items, creatures or individuals that are given special identifiers
(UIDs) and the capacity to exchange information over a network which can be both human-
to-human or human-to-PC communications3. The IoT or the Internet of things is an Emerging
technology which is also defined as an internetworking of physical devices, buildings,
vehicles and items which are generally embedded with the electronics, sensors, actuators, and
the network connectivity which is associated with enabling of the objects to collect and
exchange the data.
1 Babu, B. Sobhan, K. Srikanth, T. Ramanjaneyulu, and I. Lakshmi Narayana. "IoT for
healthcare." International Journal of Science and Research 5, no. 2 (2016): 322-326.
2 Ali, Farman, SM Riazul Islam, Daehan Kwak, Pervez Khan, Niamat Ullah, Sang-jo Yoo, and Kyung Sup
Kwak. "Type-2 fuzzy ontology–aided recommendation systems for IoT–based healthcare." Computer
Communications 119 (2018): 138-155.
3 Gelogo, Yvette E., Ha Jin Hwang, and Haeng-Kon Kim. "Internet of Things (IoT) framework for u-healthcare
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IoT is also referred to as the integrated information network of the future internet
which is associated with including the physical as well as the virtual things associated with
having their own identities along with physical attributes and intelligent interfaces as well
and all this in turn are connected with one another in a seamless manner4. Besides this it is
also associated with connecting a huge number of information as well as communication
systems which are used by peoples so as to interact with the information and the
communication technologies which are responsible for providing support to the entire
business processes.
IoT might be a hot topic in the industry however it is not a new concept and has
recently become very popular in the field of communication technology. Technology which
has now been seen to be dependent upon the IoT has been associated with working in its own
4 Yuehong, Y. I. N., Yan Zeng, Xing Chen, and Yuanjie Fan. "The internet of things in healthcare: An
overview." Journal of Industrial Information Integration 1 (2016): 3-13.

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way onto many devices of the consumers. Besides this many people are also associated with
expecting it to crossover to healthcare, IoT technology has been associated with transforming
the way in which human beings live and work5. Besides this it is also having the possibility of
changing many aspects of human life including the healthcare as well. In today’s world there
exists various healthcare system which are seen to be available and are associated with
allowing the patients in scheduling of the appointments by usage of the applications present
in their mobile phones, smart devices and many more, without any kind of need of calling the
hospital and wait for longer time so as to get an appointment.
General use of IoT in the Healthcare:
IoT is generally associated with transforming the medical data so as to gain insights
related to providing of smarter patient care. Healthcare has now been associated with
becoming much more advanced in terms of technology usage and is entire related to
connecting things together. For this reason the IoT has seen to have become very important
for the healthcare sector6. Leveraging of the connected sensors along with the other type of
things which can be worn by people, would be helping in placing all the information in the
clouds and it can be used by the doctors or care givers so as to have a real-time monitoring of
the patients. IoTs are also capable of supporting potentially lifesaving applications which are
present in the healthcare industry by collection of the data from the devices such as the
bedside devices, patient information viewing and real-time diagnosis of the entire system
associated with providing patient care. Besides this there are many healthcare devices which
are seen to be operating throughout the entire world which in turn is seen to be turning out
into a major issue due to risks related to data loss mistakes in the process of diagnosis7. In
addition to this the caregivers or the doctors are also having the capability of do easy
monitoring along with management of the patients health condition which in turn is
associated with making them capable of saving each and every precious moments. This
would be done without any kind of manual visit to the patients and the caregiver or the expert
would become capable of providing a remote diagnosis along with tracking of the medical
5 Yang, Yang, Xianghan Zheng, Wenzhong Guo, Ximeng Liu, and Victor Chang. "Privacy-preserving smart
IoT-based healthcare big data storage and self-adaptive access control system." Information Sciences 479
(2019): 567-592.
6 Tao, Hai, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Ahmed N. Abdalla, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Jasni Mohamad Zain,
and Thaier Hayajneh. "Secured data collection with hardware-based ciphers for iot-based healthcare." IEEE
Internet of Things Journal 6, no. 1 (2019): 410-420.
7 Yeole, Anjali S., and D. R. Kalbande. "Use of internet of things (iot) in healthcare: A survey." In Proceedings
of the ACM Symposium on Women in Research 2016, pp. 71-76. ACM, 2016.

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assets. Usage of the sensors along with the Wi-Fi it is possible to determine the right
department’s location so as to retrieve the sensual information.
Internet of Things has widely achieved a large amount of recognition in the various
field which has made human life easier. The eye opener has been in the field of medicine
which has enormous benefits8. It is one of most intense and significant fields to be created
and improved by smart environment intended to help human life to be predictable and react
in a faster way possible. It not only saves many lives but also helps in low power utilization
and which is also economical that can provide constant evaluation and feedback.
Smart devices in the field of medicine such as Fitbit and Apple watch which are easily
available in the market are being used extensively to have track on the activity and heart rate
which improve both physical and mental health if necessary actions are taken9. We can also
find many app on our own smart phone which will give us step count and gives advises
accordingly.
8 Hou, Jia-Li, and Kuo-Hui Yeh. "Novel authentication schemes for IoT based healthcare
systems." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 11, no. 11 (2015): 183659.
9 Darshan, K. R., and K. R. Anandakumar. "A comprehensive review on usage of Internet of Things (IoT) in
healthcare system." In 2015 International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science
and Technology (ICERECT), pp. 132-136. IEEE, 2015.