Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities

Introduction
IoT referred to the internet of things that use remote access concept which through anyone can
access their service (any service,) at any time, anything, anyplace, and any network. It offers
their service in the number of areas such as smart cities, structural health, industrial control,
logistics, traffic congestion, emergency services, security, and healthcare. For this report, I have
selected the healthcare for the IoT. There are number of application work in the healthcare sector
for the remote monitoring through the medical device integration and smart sensors. It saves the
patient health data and offers the physicians service in the global.
IoT of health care can be boosted the patient appointment and given the satisfaction of patients
because it offers more interaction with their doctors. Health care system is a huge ecosystem
which includes the pharmaceutical industry, personal healthcare, healthcare insurance, smart
pills, healthcare building facilities, smart beds, robotics, anything remote, biosensors, and a
number of healthcare specializations, detail of diseases. The scope of this report has defined the
Internet of Things (IoT) in the healthcare industry (Kwak, Islam, Kabir, and Hossain, 2015). IoT
offers a number of applications in the healthcare sector to evolutions of the healthcare payers and
healthcare providers. It also focuses on the real-time and uses case application of healthcare.
Security threads and Multiple Device Integration are major problems faced by the IoT
Healthcare sector. Patients and clinicians data stored on the related could (data store massive
way) which may be hacked by the attacker during the information sharing which is harmful to
patients’ data (Martínez-Pérez, Torre-Díez, & Coronado, 2015). Health application needs to
aware of what data is storage, data type, who access the data, who can use the data, who has
permission to view the patient data and so-on for the data security. During use of the IoT health
application, users are not aware of the Legal issue of the data security. So there needs a data
security for the privacy otherwise it increases the cost and error of the system. Health system
uses Multiple Device Integration which faced regularity issue during the device manufacturing.
It arises in the device due to do not follow protocols and standards. Medical devices are the
heartbeat of the health care project so health application needs proper data of health service
center which contains good medical equipment for the health service (Lopez, Roman, & Najera,
2011).
Report contains five sections which first section is the introduction part. Second section of the
Report is Literature Review which includes current and previous methodologies that are used to
solve the problem. In the third section, compare the methodologies on the simplicity, efficiency,
extension base which save the cost, give the feasibility, and solved commercialization and
connectivity issues. In the fourth section, define a methodology which is best suits for the given
problem with the justification and argument. In the fifth section, define the research findings
with a conclusion and give the recommendation for the future work.