Internet of Things in HealthCare

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Abstract

The next era will be the connection between the physical things and internet. The things include goods, machine, appliances even we also become the part of it. The reason for integrating healthcare with Internet of Things features into medical devices improves the quality and effectiveness of service, bringing especially high value for elderly, patients with chronic conditions and those that require consistent supervision. Now research is going on-how to transform healthcare industry by increasing efficiency, lowering costs and put the focus back on better patient care. The Internet of Things will be a game changer for the healthcare industry. With an intelligent system and powerful algorithms, one can obtain an unprecedented level of real-time, life-critical data which is captured and analyzed to drive people in advance research, management and critical care. Taking care of patient’s health at very low cost is an important factor. The main idea of applying IoT in healthcare is move out from traditional area to visit hospitals and thus waiting will come to an end. The concept here is that it can be able to sense, process and communicate with biomedical and physical parameters so that they can work on it. Many applications and devices have been designed for healthcare purpose and have been put for people to use. The view is to connect the doctors, patients and nurses via smart device and each entity can roam without any restrictions. The idea is 24 * 7 monitoring of patient.

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Bhatt, Y., & Bhatt, C. (2017). Internet of Things in HealthCare. In Studies in Big Data (Vol. 23, pp. 13–33). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49736-5_2

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