IoT in Health Care Industry: A Promising Prospect

ABSTRACT

In the twenty-first century, Internet of Things (IoT) has boomed to be impossible to not to relate to. From computers, mobile phones, smart watches or your virtual assistants, everything is connected to the complex web of IoT. With the technological development in this century, healthcare sector has also had its fair share of innovations including innovation related to healthcare, diagnostics, sensors, or even data analytic along with development in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. IoT in healthcare is expected to help improve the quality of life for the people due to the flexibility that it provides. We looked at the significant amount of work done in this sector, and found a trend that COVID-19 has only spurred the development of this field. We explored both the benefits and challenges that IoT in Healthcare might possess and have addressed challenges such as data security, cloud integration problems. Additionally, we looked at the issue of data security in depth and along with the current method of LSCSH being used, we have recommended that Zero-trust architecture being used as well as it caters to the needs of the evolving data management space. From 2013, IoT in healthcare has dominated the space as new devices are released and there has been a boom of devices that are being developed and being researched on. Most of the devices are affordable and some can even be accessed with a small subscription fee. Our results show us that IoT has started to pick up its popularity since 2015 as companies succeeded to win the trust of the market. Even though most of the development for these technologies look to come in the future, the progress made in the recent years look promising. © 2021 IEEE.