IoT- Enabled Healthcare Systems: Design, Implementation, and Challenges

Abstract

In the past couple of decades, there have been significant changes in the healthcare industry, mostly with the genesis of an emerging technology called Internet of Things ( IoT ). IoT provides a platform that allows people and objects to connect with one another in a seamless manner, thereby enhancing and simplifying our respective lives. This vision takes us from computer-based centralized schemes to a more dispersed environment that offers a large array of applications, including smart wearables, smart homes, smart mobility, and smart cities. The development of intelligent systems that have a high capacity for communication and data collection is made feasible by successive technological advancements. This opens up a number of potential applications for a wide variety of IoT applications, particularly healthcare systems. Although there are many benefits associated with the IoT , there are still a number of unresolved difficulties that constitute the most significant hurdles, including accessibility, portability, interoperability, information security, and privacy. The present state-of-the-art IoT architecture for electronic health records and healthcare systems is taken into consideration in this chapter. Particular attention is paid to the technologies, applications, problems, opportunities, open-source platforms, and operating systems. In addition, this chapter provides a synthesis of the existing body of knowledge and identifies common threads and gaps that open up potentially major future research avenues.