IoT in Health Care

This paper explores the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the health sector, including relevant examples of current health facilities that have implemented IoT. It identifies the key challenges being experienced in the health sector and outlines relevant solutions that may be implemented to avoid these challenges. The paper concludes with recommendations on how health care can effectively implement IoT.

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Introduction
With the current high adoption rate of the use of technology worldwide, one of the most
popular topics that have merged has been a discussion of “the internet of things”. According to
Atzori, & Morabito (2010), the internet of things is the interaction of any computing devices
over a particular network. These devices may include computers, vehicles, home appliances or
even human beings. Each device here is given a unique code known as an IP address which is
different from any other devices and is used to identify the specific networking device
(Aggarwal, 2013). The communication that is done in these devices is aimed at benefiting the
human workforce through performing of both basic and complex tasks. The adoption and uptake
of the use of the Internet of things has brought about major milestones in the world. Some of the
things that it has led to is the enhancement of communication of people from different parts of
the world. An example is through the use of teleconferencing which has enhanced real time
communication of different people (Shukla,2011).
The use of the internet of things is directly felt in almost all the different industries
worldwide. Some examples include in the health sector, Entertainment industry, in sports and
even in the Education sector (Perera, 2014).
Format of the paper
The paper adopts a direct format where it will start by first identifying how the Internet of
Things has been adopted in the health sector. This includes relevant examples current health
facilities that have implemented the use of the internet in their daily activities. The paper then
identifies the key challenges that are being experienced in general as the whole world comes to
terms with the internet of things. This is then narrowed down to the challenges that are being

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experienced in the health sector with the use of the internet. After the mention of the challenges,
the paper outlines and explains the relevant solutions that may be implemented so as to avoid
these challenges. The paper then gives recommendations on how health care can effectively
implement the use of the Internet of Things.
Problem statement
With the current high adoption rate of use of technology in different sectors in the world,
the internet of things has become an essential tool this is more so seen in the health care.
However the successful use and implementation of the Internet of things in the health sector may
be coming to an end. This is due to the different threats that the internet of things is exposed to
that can lead to either unauthorized access to critical patient information or Distortion of patients
data.
Executive summary
This paper however tries to narrow down the applications of the internet of things to just
the health sector where since its introduction, there has been quite a massive improvement. The
paper tries to give an overview of the different uses of the internet of Things in health care this
entails both patients and doctors records management, scheduling and patients assessments (Li,
2015). The paper later then assesses the main risk involved with the use of the Internet of Things
in health care which include routing attacks, denial of services (DOS), privacy threats, man in the
middle attacks that occur during exchange of decryption keys and the cloning of smart things
(Al-Fuqaha, 2015). The paper later gives an overview of the possible solutions that can be
implemented so as to avoid catastrophe that might result in by the occurrence of any of the
potential risks. This marks the end of the paper as the findings are expected to be useful.

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