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Suliman Abdulmalek1,2, Abdul Nasir1, Waheb A Jabbar3
1Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan 26600, Malaysia.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|October 27, 2022
Summary
The Internet of Things (IoT) enhances remote patient monitoring for better healthcare. This review examines IoT healthcare systems, their benefits, and challenges for future advancements.
Area of Science:
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Computer Science
Background:
- The Internet of Things (IoT) is crucial for innovative applications, including healthcare.
- IoT enables secure, real-time remote patient monitoring, significantly improving quality of life.
- Healthcare systems increasingly leverage IoT for enhanced patient care and accessibility.
Purpose of the Study:
- To conduct a systematic review of recent IoT-based healthcare-monitoring systems.
- To explore the benefits, effectiveness, efficiency, and security of IoT in healthcare.
- To identify challenges, open issues, and future directions in IoT healthcare applications.
Main Methods:
- Systematic literature review of recent studies on IoT-based healthcare-monitoring systems.
- Comparative analysis of various IoT healthcare systems based on effectiveness, efficiency, data protection, privacy, security, and monitoring capabilities.
- Exploration of wireless and wearable sensor-based IoT monitoring systems and classification of healthcare sensors.
Main Results:
- IoT offers significant benefits for healthcare, particularly in remote patient monitoring.
- A comparison of systems highlights variations in effectiveness, efficiency, and security.
- Wireless and wearable sensors are key components of IoT healthcare monitoring.
Conclusions:
- IoT-based healthcare systems present a promising approach to improving patient care and accessibility.
- Addressing security, privacy, and Quality of Service (QoS) challenges is critical for widespread adoption.
- Future research should focus on emerging technology trends to further optimize IoT healthcare applications.
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