Globally, health and medical care services are facing tremendous challenges owing to, for example, soaring costs, an ageing population, an increase in the prevalence of chronic and/or multiple conditions, and a shortage of skilled healthcare professionals. In addition, traditional care services relying on average and/or qualitative data and a one-size-fits-all prescribing approach do not work well. In this context, the use of IoT in healthcare services addresses many of these challenges by offering the following features:
- Seamless integration with various existing technologies
- Support of big data processing and analysis
- Personalized services
- Remote and real-time monitoring-based connected healthcare services
- Quantitative data, which offer more effective services than qualitative data
- Interactive and real-time interaction between healthcare professionals and...