A review on IoT healthcare monitoring applications and a vision for transforming sensor data into real-time clinical feedback

Ageing populations and the increase in chronic diseases all over the world demand efficient healthcare solutions for maintaining well-being of people. One strategy that has drawn significant research attention is a focus on remote health monitoring systems based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology. This concept can help decrease pressure on hospital systems and healthcare providers, reduce healthcare costs, and improve homecare especially for patients with chronic diseases and the elderly. This paper explores the use of IoT-based applications in medical field and proposes an IoT Tiered Architecture (IoTTA) towards an approach for transforming sensor data into real-time clinical feedback. This approach considers a range of aspects including sensing, sending, processing, storing, and mining and learning. Using this approach will help to develop useful and effective solutions for pursuing systems development in IoT healthcare applications. The result of the review found that the growth of IoT applications for healthcare is in areas of self-care, data mining, and machine learning.

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