Recent Advancements of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Challenges and Future Opportunities with Emerging Technologies

Abstract

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is one of the thriving areas of current era which focuses on the digitization of healthcare services by connecting hospitals, medical resources, healthcare professionals and patients over Internet. Internet of Things (IoT) plays important role in IoMT to connect medical devices with each other for the communication of data between doctors, medical staffs, hospitals and patient for offering efficient and reliable medical services. Currently, IoMT offers various services like patient data management, diagnosis of diseases, remote healthcare monitoring, tele-surgery, etc. In this paper, the IoMT is covered with respect to its applications, use cases and case studies. The analysis shows that the IoMT is one of the most growing fields of Information Technology (IT) which uses the various sensors, equipment, and devices to sense the health-related data of humans and share the data with hospitals, doctors and healthcare professionals for remote diagnosis and treatments. However, IoMT is being adopted widely to offer tele-surgeries, real-time health monitoring and diagnosis of various diseases by integration of various technologies, still many challenges such as Interoperability, privacy and security, Energy Consumption, network latency, etc. need focus of researchers for better and accurate outcome. Here, the major challenges of IoMT are covered which will be helpful to the researcher and medical professional for improvement in healthcare domain.