IoT in Health Care: Impact, Challenges, and Solutions

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Abstract
The use of internet of things in healthcare such as personal healthcare, payment applications and
the industry itself has been increased across the world. At the same time, the use of internet of
things in healthcare is increasing the speed as well as quality of the services. Hence, most of the
IoT initiatives in healthcare industry revolved across the enhancement of care like remote
monitoring as well as tele-monitoring several applications. The IoT has an impact on every
industry. After discovery of internet, internet of things has been creating waves in every
business in the world. According to the reports of P&S market research, there is a complicated
growth rate of 37.6% in healthcare IOT industry between 2015 and 2020. It has been claimed
that the rise could have attribute to upped hand of remote monitoring healthcare system. It is able
to identify chronic life-threatening diseases. The report presents the concept of internet of thing
as well as the procedure of using internet of things connecting human services with healthcare
industry. In addition, several issues and challenge when using IoT in healthcare are discussed in
the present study. Literature review part deals with the current usage of IoT in healthcare
services. Implementation and use cases of IOT are presented in the study. The study presents
IoT based healthcare applications and reviewing the sate-of-the art network architecture or
platforms and applications as well as industrial trends in health care solutions. Moreover, present
paper analyzed different IoT security as well as privacy feature that consist of security needs,
threat models as well as attack taxonomies from perspective of healthcare. The process of
leverage by big data, wearable and ambient intelligence in healthcare context has been addressed
several IoT and e-Health policies along with regulations across the globe determining how they
facilitates societies as well as economies in terms of sustainable development.

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review................................................................................................................3
Impact of IoT on Healthcare:...............................................................................................5
Health Information System and IoT:...................................................................................8
Issues/ Challenges/ Solutions..............................................................................................8
Integration: multiple Devices & protocols....................................................................11
Accuracy: Enormous amount of data............................................................................11
Aspects to Consider:......................................................................................................12
Future Research.................................................................................................................12
Advantages and disadvantages..........................................................................................15
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................18
References..........................................................................................................................20

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Introduction
The Internet of things is rapidly taking over domestic and international health care
industry. Healthcare is one of the necessary parts of life. However, steadily aging populations as
well as associated rise in chronic illness is placing an important strain on modern healthcare
systems (Laplante & Laplante, 2016). On the other hand, the demand for resources is minimizing
the pressure on healthcare. The process of monitoring patients with particular purposes like
aiding rehabilitation by making a continuous monitoring of progress of patients. In addition,
emergency healthcare systems have been detected as a possibility through associated works.
Various associated works have been surveyed particular areas as well as technologies to
IoT healthcare. The study makes a unique contribution in the process that addresses the key
elements of an end-to-end IoT healthcare systems. It is important to concentrate on the sensors in
order to monitor several health parameters short as well as long-range communication standard
along with cloud technologies. Various leading works regarding development of healthcare
systems are described. Hence, development of the recurring themes for the works a generic as
well as standardized model will be suitable for future works. There are several definitions
regarding internet of things exist.
Literature Review
Research in associate fields of work has shown that remote health monitoring is
considered as plausible. However, it is significant that the advantages it could provide in
distinctive context. Remote health monitoring process can be utilized in order to monitor the
process. The issues can be solvable and addressed in literature. However, the progress continues

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to be developed and continues for minimizing the disadvantages. It results benefited of remote
health monitoring service. Several researchers have detected possibility of internet of things as a
solution in healthcare service. However, rehabilitation after injury is a topic of specific interest in
the system.
The system decides the person for notifying as well as patients themselves. The
caregivers as well as family members along with healthcare providers like doctors are included
in it. On the other hand, the system aimed at detecting heart attacks that is built utilizing ready-
made elements as well as custom-antenna. ECG sensors are utilized for measuring heart activity,
processed through micro-controller. Thus, the information can be forwarded through Bluetooth
and smart-phone of the users.
SPHERE is considered as a system, which is under continuing the development that uses
wearable, vision-based as well as environmental sensors for general activity along with health
monitoring purposes. Researchers who are working on the project addressed that the machine
learning would have advantages to learn regarding conditions as well as making decisions related
healthcare of patients.
The existing systems would give highlight that communications are necessary. In various
existing system models as well as short term of communications like blue-tooth can be suggested
in order to translate sensor data to the smartphones that can be processed properly (Islam et al.,
2015). On the other hand, long range of communication like LTE is used in order to transfer
cloud storage database. Use of the sensors is connected to the process that makes high-
computing environment for cloud. Based on the recurring trends, it can be proposed in the
development of internet of things. Wearable sensors nodes are the things that can measure