Harnessing the power of Internet of Things based connectivity to improve healthcare

Sherali Zeadally; Oladayo Bello

doi:10.1016/j.iot.2019.100074

Harnessing the power of Internet of Things based connectivity to improve healthcare

Sherali Zeadally, Oladayo Bello

School of Information Science

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Abstract

Connectivity and interoperability are vital design characteristics of any Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure. Today, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are being integrated with various types of medical systems in order to provide cost-effective, ubiquitous, on-time healthcare services to people who need them. Presently, the healthcare system has evolved into a complex ecosystem which consists of a wide range of devices, databases, communication technologies that work together to provide different healthcare services. In many healthcare information systems, these technologies and resources need to interact and collaborate with or without human intervention to enable the healthcare system to achieve its goal of providing efficient healthcare services. The Internet of Things technology has the potential to provide connectivity for a global network of billions of devices and it can therefore be harnessed to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare services. We explore and discuss how IoT-based connectivity can deliver improved healthcare solutions. We describe IoT-based healthcare solutions that have been implemented recently. Finally, we discuss future opportunities that can be explored for improved healthcare solutions based on the IoT concept.

Original language	English
Article number	100074
Journal	Internet of Things (Netherlands)
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2019.100074
State	Published - Jun 2021

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Funding Information:
We do not have any conflicts of interest. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments which helped us to improve the quality and presentation of this paper.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

Architecture
Healthcare
Internet of Things (IoT)
Medical devices

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Software
Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Information Systems
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Science Applications
Artificial Intelligence
Management of Technology and Innovation

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