Edge Computing Based Healthcare Systems: Enabling Decentralized Health Monitoring in Internet of Medical Things

IEEE Network ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 254-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiran Dong ◽  
Zhaolong Ning ◽  
Mohammad S. Obaidat ◽  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Yi Guo ◽  
...  

The advancement of information and communications technology has changed an IoMT-enabled healthcare system. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT) that focuses on smart healthcare (medical) device connectivity. While the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) communication environment facilitates and supports our daily health activities, it also has drawbacks such as password guessing, replay, impersonation, remote hijacking, privileged insider, denial of service (DoS), and man-in-the-middle attacks, as well as malware attacks. Malware botnets cause assaults on the system's data and other resources, compromising its authenticity, availability, confidentiality and, integrity. In the event of such an attack, crucial IoMT communication data may be exposed, altered, or even unavailable to authorised users. As a result, malware protection for the IoMT environment becomes critical. In this paper, we provide several forms of malware attacks and their consequences. We also go through security, privacy, and different IoMT malware detection schemes


Author(s):  
Pedro C. Santana-Mancilla ◽  
Luis E. Anido-Rifón ◽  
Juan Contreras-Castillo ◽  
Raymundo Buenrostro-Mariscal

This paper presents the usability assessment of the design of an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) system for older adults; the evaluation, using heuristics, was held early on the design process to assess potential problems with the system and was found to be an efficient method to find issues with the application design and led to significant usability improvements on the IoMT platform.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 2164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumit Majumder ◽  
M. Jamal Deen

Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in life expectancy owing to significant advances in medical science and technology, medicine as well as increased awareness about nutrition, education, and environmental and personal hygiene. Consequently, the elderly population in many countries are expected to rise rapidly in the coming years. A rapidly rising elderly demographics is expected to adversely affect the socioeconomic systems of many nations in terms of costs associated with their healthcare and wellbeing. In addition, diseases related to the cardiovascular system, eye, respiratory system, skin and mental health are widespread globally. However, most of these diseases can be avoided and/or properly managed through continuous monitoring. In order to enable continuous health monitoring as well as to serve growing healthcare needs; affordable, non-invasive and easy-to-use healthcare solutions are critical. The ever-increasing penetration of smartphones, coupled with embedded sensors and modern communication technologies, make it an attractive technology for enabling continuous and remote monitoring of an individual’s health and wellbeing with negligible additional costs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research and developments in smartphone-sensor based healthcare technologies. A discussion on regulatory policies for medical devices and their implications in smartphone-based healthcare systems is presented. Finally, some future research perspectives and concerns regarding smartphone-based healthcare systems are described.


Author(s):  
Omar AlShorman ◽  
Buthaynah AlShorman ◽  
Mahmood Al-khassaweneh ◽  
Fahad Alkahtani

<span>The latest advances and trends in information technology and communication have a vital role in healthcare industries. </span><span>Theses advancements led to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) which provides a continuous, remote and real-time monitoring of patients. The IoMT </span><span>architectures still face many challenges related to the bandwidth, communication protocols, big data and data volume, flexibility, reliability, data management, data acquisition, data processing and analytics availability, cost effectiveness, data security and privacy, and energy efficiency. The goal of this paper is to find </span><span>feasible </span><span>solutions to enhance the healthcare living facilities using remote health monitoring (RHM) and IoMT. In addition, the enhancement of the prevention, prognosis, diagnosis and treatment abilities using IoMT and RHM is also discussed. </span><span>A case study of monitoring the vital signs of diabetic patients using real-time data processing and IoMT is also presented</span><span>. </span>


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