Internet of Things Applications for Healthcare

Abstract

This chapter shows how the internet of things (IoT) can be applied for various purposes in the healthcare domain. The functioning of this concept has enabled the collection of a number of technologies in the field of telecommunications, information technology, electronics, and social sciences. M-health as a part of e-health could be defined as synergistic solution of mobile computing, medical sensor, and communications technologies for healthcare, whose common goal is wirelessly monitoring the psycho-physical state of health or remote patient monitoring. This concept represents the evolution of e-health systems to wireless and mobile configurations. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive review of recent solutions as well as possible future implementations from the m-health perspective. Further developments in wireless communications and configurations will have a huge impact on future healthcare delivery systems.