Internet-of-everything oriented implementation of secure Digital Health (D-Health) systems
Grayson Honan, Alex Page, Övünç Kocabaş, Tolga Soyata, Burak Kantarcı · 2016
The past few decades have witnessed incredible advances in human health care, owing to the invention of devices such as MRI scanners, which allow physicians to monitor personal health in more detail than was ever previously possible. Such advances have drastically improved diagnostic quality and patient health care. Central to this incredible progress was the uncanny ability of technologists and academics to invent ever more useful tools to help physicians, be it the X-ray machine, CT, or MRI scanner. Whereas the aforementioned past-decades' tools aimed at acquiring personal data, the advent of the Internet-of-Things, vast computational power available in the cloud, and new data analytics algorithms will completely change the way we acquire and process medical data to improve health care going forward. In this paper, we conduct a quantitative feasibility study of a Digital Health (D-Health) system that is aimed at acquiring and processing health data using the emerging Internet-of-Everything paradigm. We specifically investigate the technological feasibility of communication, software, and data privacy aspects.