Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) in E-health and M-Health: Issues and Applications

It is anticipated that the demand for personal healthcare applications will increase sharply. In the traditional medical mode, the quality and scale of medical service can t meet the needs of patients. As IOT converge various domains, we focus on research contribution of IOT in healthcare domain and describe Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) as a solution. IOMT is playing vital role in healthcare industry to increase the accuracy, reliability and productivity of electronic devices. Researchers are contributing towards a digitized healthcare system by interconnecting the available medical resources and healthcare services. This paper presents IOMT concepts including definitions, characteristic, issues and major challenges. Background and Method: Basically IOT is the inter-networking of electronic devices to enable exchange of data between devices for specific domain applications. It is of great significance to establish a set of family oriented remote medical surveillance system based on mobile Internet as called m-health, which is used to analyze, capture, transmit and store health statistics from multiple resources, including sensors and other biomedical acquisition systems.

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Internet of Medical Things , Information Systems , m-health , Nursing Informatics.