Analyzing IoT Implementation, Challenges & Adoption in Healthcare

This essay provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, highlighting its potential to revolutionize healthcare delivery through interconnected devices and seamless data sharing. It acknowledges the chronic impacts of various maladies and the potential of IoT to address challenges such as remote patient monitoring and timely specialist consultations. The essay identifies challenges in IoT implementation, including independent devices lacking centralized information and security vulnerabilities. It aims to evaluate research frameworks on these challenges, explore adoption methods, and suggest strategies for complete implementation of IoT in the healthcare sector, emphasizing the need for addressing challenges related to data centrality and security.

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Introduction
Internet of things in simple words, as a matter of fact, represents a large interconnection
of various physical devices which are linked to one another in a very special sense. These
computer devices are intended to work without human interference wherever they are and also
on a large scale of connectivity (Ranger, 2018). They work seamlessly without either human or
computer interception and ensure data is shared to and from in all those connection points. In all
conditions, information technology is highly growing day by day to ensure complete automation
of activities in the world. This makes communication network easy and reliable as more
information is now available.
The health sector has really done much in the present world to ensure that the
communication and the interaction of various components have been realized to make the
delivery of health services more possible to the citizens in many nations of the world (Pallis,
2014). Because of the chronic impacts that the maladies have, the people are exposed to various
hardened strains of conditions which sometimes will require a referral from one doctor or
clinician to another. Often the doctor may be far from the hospital where his or help may be
needed. Some cases may be very emergent compared to others and they may need immediate
attention. This makes the travelling and often flight more expensive and unbearable and thus
most of the patients succumb in death when they cannot be attended. In the wisdom of the
information technology sector, there is much that has been done to ensure that all these services
that many victims have missed and died in dire want can be availed without much restraint and
compulsion from the circumstances, (Ashton 2009).. Through IoT, many devices that are needed
for diagnosing various complications have been invented which can communicate with each
other from time to time even under forbidding circumstances.

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Different tests and sample evaluation can be sent even unto further distances for
assessment by the specialists and this reduces the burden which the health care had. However,
there are some few challenges that the implementation of the IoT has in the health setups.
Challenges of independent devices working in such a way that makes no centrality of
information, (Atzori, Iera & Morabito 2010). Each and every department tends to have its share of
information without sharing with others. There is also an evidence of insecurity from beyond as a
result of hackers intruding. It is the purpose of this paper to evaluate various research
frameworks that have been conducted on the challenges that the subject at hand has faced in
various ages, what are the possible best adoption methods from the evaluated and finally what
can be done to ensure entire implementation of this crucial aspect in Health sector.
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