Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare

Running head: INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) IN HEALTHCARE
Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare
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Abstract
The healthcare industry requires a high level of need the use of technology in the recent times. In
the age of high-end technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) technology plays an extensive role
in several areas including the healthcare sector. The use of IoT connected technology would
enable several forms of opportunities in order to remotely sense and thus control the objects with
the help of communication networks. This report puts a thorough focus on the background of the
IoT technology within the healthcare sector. The report would also discuss the scope of the
project and derive certain research questions, which would help in identifying the prime focus of
the research. The report would also provide a discussion based on certain arguments while
supporting the research questions. Based on the recommendations, the report concludes by
summarising the primary idea and findings during the research.

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Table of Contents
1. Background..................................................................................................................................3
2. Problem Scope and Research Questions......................................................................................4
3. Discussion....................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Definition of IoT Technology................................................................................................4
3.2 Applications of IoT Technology within Healthcare..............................................................5
3.3 The Benefits of IoT within the Healthcare Sector.................................................................6
3.4 The Challenges of IoT Implementation within Healthcare Sector........................................8
3.5 The Opportunities of IoT Implementation within Healthcare Sector....................................9
4. Recommendations......................................................................................................................11
5. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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1. Background
The Internet of Things (IoT) comprise of a set of technologies that would enable a vast
set of devices, applications and objects. The use of this technology would help in the interaction
and communication with other devices using the networked technologies. In the context of IoT,
different kinds of small devices would be frequently form an active network and would provide
real-time information (Islam et al. 2015). There are several applications within the IoT network
that also includes healthcare systems, which is the primary focus in this research paper. The
healthcare systems make use of different kinds of interconnected devices that would create an
IoT network, which would be entirely devoted for creation of a healthcare assessment (Gubbi et
al. 2013). The use of IoT network within the healthcare system would include the monitoring of
patients and thus would automatically detect different situations in which medical interventions
will be required.
Informative and communication technologies are one of the most vital tools, which
would help in the mitigation of some kind of problems that would be in association with aging
populations. In the recent times, there are certain modern measuring devices that includes
weight, blood pressure and movement sensors that would incorporate the capability of
communication (Bhatt, Dey and Ashour 2017). They would be able to create the IoT networks,
which could be implemented for home tele-monitoring. These are the same kind of devices,
which are generally employed by different health professionals for the purpose of checking the
overall condition of affected patients suffering from various ailments.
The general healthcare system would collect information from different IoT sensing
devices that would provide the function of interoperability (Chiuchisan et al. 2014). These IoT