IoT in Healthcare: Analysis of Problems and Proposed Solutions

This report delves into the challenges and opportunities of implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technology in healthcare. It begins by introducing the core problem: the integration of IoT devices, such as those used for remote patient monitoring, with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The report identifies key obstacles, including interoperability issues among different medical devices and security concerns surrounding data breaches and lack of standardized security protocols. The report then outlines its structure, detailing sections on literature review, annotated bibliography, research findings, recommendations, and conclusions. The purpose is to analyze IoT implementation, discuss problems and related works, and select appropriate technologies for more effective use. The literature review examines previous studies to understand the technology's impact and how it can enhance healthcare delivery. The annotated bibliography provides insights from scholarly articles. Research findings will highlight the most effective methodologies. Finally, the report offers recommendations to improve the technology’s efficiency, with the goal of improving patient care and outcomes.

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Milestone 2:
Introduction to the problem:
There exists various healthcare devices that makes use of the IoT technology so as to
make lives of the patients much easy. This devices are generally responsible for the capturing
and monitoring of the data that are relevant to the patients and helps the healthcare provide to
have insights of the patients without bringing them for visits. This helps in improving the
outcomes and preventing any kind of complications (Subasi et al., 2018). However along
with the challenges there exists certain challenges that are faced by the IoT in the healthcare
domain.
Lack of the EHR or the Electronic Health Record system integration with the data that
is being collected. The data collected might be including the vital signs of the patients,
physical activities or the glucose level of the patients when they are at their home and many
more. But it is often seen that this data are not travelling to the EHR system and sometimes it
is also seen that the data are not centralized and not made available to the providers easily
(Laplante & Laplante, 2016). This acts as a major challenge for the IoT while being used in
the healthcare sector.
Interoperability is another challenges faced by the IoT while being implemented in the
healthcare sector. The patients are likely to collect the various sets of data when they are
associated with the usage of the various kind of medical devices. This are generally
dependent upon the purpose of each device and in some cases it is also seen for the ordering
physician as well. Diabetes patents might be associated with frequent collection of their
glucose level so as to report back to their physician along (Hassanalieragh et al., 2015).
Similar thing is done for separate medical conditions by making use of different devices.
Besides tjis in many cases it is also seen that the capturing of the data done from the patients

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is within the boundaries of each of the IoT system and the vendors, which are generally not
visible to the other systems. Due to lack of wider adaptation of the adequate interoperability
has resulted in the lock down of the different IOT devices in each of the individual systems
ultimately leading to the loss of potential value to the rest of the team associated with
providing patient care.
Besides this a single IoT data might not seem to be meaningful if it is not included
within the context of full health record. There exists many providers who are associated with
supporting the collection process of meaningful data, however this data is only valuable if the
data is incorporated along with being viewed within the context of the full patient chart and
timeline (Lee & Lee, 2015). But certainly there also exists many cases where the collected
data from the wearable’s and other type of medical devices stays locked in the respiratory or
apps of the IoT vendors however for the physicians the data might not be associated with
providing any kind of helps unless and until they are visible within the context of the patients
full record. Another major problem faced by the IoT is the healthcare is the security concern.
This is mainly due to the lack of common security standards and the practices which might
lead to tampering of the IoT devices and data breaches.
Structure of the report:
Purpose: Main of this paper is to analyze the implementation of the IoT technology in the
healthcare domain. The report also aims at discussing about the various problems and the
related works. Which is followed by the selection of the appropriate technology so as to make
the implementation of IoT more effective.
Technologies: IoT or the Internet of Things is the technology that is going to be analyzed in
this paper.

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Literature Review: In this section various works that has been done previously are discussed
so as to understand the technology properly and the ways by which this technology is being
used so as to improve the ways of providing healthcare.
Annotated Bibliography: his section lists the major understanding of the various scholarly
articles that are to be used so as to conduct further research.
Research Findings: The major finding of the literature review are listed in this section
amongst which the most appropriate methodology is to be selected so as to make the system
more effective.
Recommendations: This sections of the report consists of further recommendations that can
be adopted so as to make the technology become more efficient.
Conclusion: This section of the report is associated with summarizing the entire paper and
this would be consisting of the overview of the different kind of problem along with, the
previous works that has been conducted, selection of a proper methodology so as to eliminate
the problems which would be helping in increasing the efficiency of the system.

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References:
Hassanalieragh, M., Page, A., Soyata, T., Sharma, G., Aktas, M., Mateos, G., ... &
Andreescu, S. (2015, June). Health monitoring and management using Internet-of-
Things (IoT) sensing with cloud-based processing: Opportunities and challenges.
In 2015 IEEE international conference on services computing (SCC) (pp. 285-292).
IEEE.
Laplante, P. A., & Laplante, N. (2016). The internet of things in healthcare: Potential
applications and challenges. IT Professional, (3), 2-4.
Lee, I., & Lee, K. (2015). The Internet of Things (IoT): Applications, investments, and
challenges for enterprises. Business Horizons, 58(4), 431-440.
Subasi, A., Radhwan, M., Kurdi, R., & Khateeb, K. (2018, February). IoT based mobile
healthcare system for human activity recognition. In Learning and Technology
Conference (L&T), 2018 15th (pp. 29-34). IEEE.