Internet of Things services for healthcare systems
Angeliki Krania, Margarita Statiri, Andreas Kanavos, Athanasios Tsakalidis · 2017
In the recent decades, changes regarding aspects of human's daily needs are escalating. Technology has had a huge impact on users' everyday life and thus, everything has been modified to match the new data. Achieved advances in information, communication and network technology field have significantly influenced the way the health sector operates. Different healthcare systems have been developed in order to provide solutions. There are, however, many health issues that are yet to be solved, being a significant fact that leads to an increasing demand for more efficient and advanced healthcare services. The main objective of this paper is to pave the way for the Internet of Things to apply technological breakthroughs in the health sector so as to efficiently deal with major health problems and also contribute in the decreasing of healthcare costs.