An Overview of Patient’s Health Status Monitoring System Based on Internet of Things (IoT)

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a newly emerging term for the new generation of the Internet which allows understanding between interconnected devices. IoT acts as an assistant in healthcare and plays an extremely important role in wide scopes of medicinal services observing applications. Through determining the pattern of parameters that are observed, the character of the disease can be expected. Health specialists and technicians have developed a great system with low-cost healthcare monitoring for people suffering from many diseases using common techniques such as wearable devices, wireless channels, and other remote devices. Network-related sensors, either worn on the body or in living environments, collect rich information to assess the physical and mental state of the patient. This work focuses on scanning the existing e-health (electronic healthcare) monitoring system using integrated systems. The main goal of the e-health monitoring system is to offer the patient a prescription automatically according to his or her condition. The doctor can check patient health continuously without physical interaction. The study aims to explore the uses of IoT applications in the medical sector, and its role in raising the level of medical care services in health institutions. Also, the study will address the applications of IoT in the medical field and the extent of its use to enrich traditional methods in various health fields and to determine the extent of the ability of IoT to improve the quality of health services provided. The study relies on a descriptive research approach through an analysis of the literature published in this field. The results of the study refer to the application of IoT in the health institutions, it will help to obtain accurate diagnoses for patients, which will reflect on the quality of service provided to the patient. It will also reduce periodic patient reviews to the hospital by relying on IoT applications for remote diagnosis. Also, an application in health institutions will contribute to providing data correct for the diseases that patients suffer from, and hence employing them in preparing scientific research to obtain more accurate results. This paper introduces the review of the Internet-based healthcare monitoring system (HCMS) and the general outlines on opportunities and challenges of the patient’s Internet-based patient health monitoring system.