IoT-based Healthcare Issues

Abstract

Healthcare industry has constantly been on the top in the adoption and utilisation of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the efficient healthcare administration and treatment. Recent developments in ICT and the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) have opened up new avenues for research and exploration in all fields including medical and healthcare industry. The IoT builds smart objects which are the ultimate building blocks in the development of healthcare information system. The revolution of IoT is restructuring modern healthcare with promising technological, economic and social prospects. This paper surveys advances in IoT-based healthcare technologies and reviews the state-of-the-art network architectures/platforms, applications and industrial trends in IoT-based healthcare solutions. In addition, in this paper, novel methods to utilise IoT within the field of scientific and crafty wellness care are presented. The majority of the survey is about the different healthcare approaches used in the IoT, similar to wireless well-being monitoring, U-healthcare, E-healthcare, age-friendly healthcare techniques. This paper describes a complete monitoring existence cycle and effective healthcare monitoring system designed by using the IoT and radiofrequency identification tags. Further, this paper surveys intelligent collaborative security model to minimise security risk and discusses how different innovations such as big data, ambient intelligence and wearables can be leveraged in a healthcare context; addresses various IoT-based Healthcare Service issues to determine how they can facilitate economies and societies in terms of sustainable development and surveys healthcare researches on IoT-based healthcare on a set of open issues and challenges.