Role of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence for healthcare informatics: an overview

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) must be integrated into the healthcare sector's rapidly expanding infrastructure in order to improve healthcare services. The successful integration of IoT-enabled devices into hospital networks increases patient safety, lowers costs, and raises the standard and accessibility of healthcare services. The development of AI has led to the observation that a variety of AI-based solutions help people do their tasks quickly and effectively. Healthcare personnel is always supported by AI, which also automates many administrative and healthcare chores. The chapter provides an overview of modern technological developments in healthcare systems, including the IoT and AI and contains information about efficient healthcare services that make use of IoT and AI technology. The chapter goes on to discuss further important uses of IoT and AI to address various problems in healthcare systems and describes several modern IoT and AI tools and technologies that are utilized to uphold safe data security and communication in IoT-based healthcare informatics. Various AI-based solutions with a higher impact on the healthcare industry are being employed to automate the repetitive tasks of healthcare informatics. IoT and AI-based healthcare architecture is presented in this chapter. The healthcare-related activities that are required for real-time patient monitoring and meeting the needs of healthcare professionals are all included in the architecture. The chapter also elaborates on a number of IoT and AI technology-related difficulties, particularly those that relate to the production of medical devices and the creation of efficient healthcare systems. The difficulties that healthcare system designers are now dealing with provide the groundwork for potential future improvements. The chapter also offers future prospects for researchers to create sophisticated IoT and AI-based plans to enhance the state of healthcare informatics. The chapter offers a thorough analysis to researchers who are eager to conduct their studies and contribute their important efforts to create IoT- and AI-based healthcare systems. This chapter proposes a framework that makes use of IoT and AI as critical technologies to deliver safe medical services to patients in order to give a thorough analysis of contemporary healthcare systems. According to the framework, combining IoT and AI offers a number of features, including data protection, data management, effective diagnosis, and real-time health monitoring, which solve the shortcomings of the existing hospital information system. The hospital environment is improved by the inclusion of such features in the present system.