Smart Healthcare System A Primer

Abstract: Smart healthcare system also known as Internet of Things (IoT)-based healthcare system is the abbreviation for Self-directed, Motivated, Adaptive, Resource-enriched, and Technologies-embedded (SMART) healthcare. This smart healthcare system is not smart device healthcare, but rather a medical paradigm shift for digital natives. IoT and cloud-based healthcare services promote patients’ monitoring and good healthcare delivery which are important to the 21st century healthcare services. But many healthcare institutions do not understand how germane the application of these technologies is to the healthcare delivery to promote patients’ monitoring and good healthcare delivery which are important to the 21st century healthcare services. The only option left to face the challenges confronting monitoring and delivering of ideal medical services in the 21st century by healthcare providers is the application of these technologies. The understanding of the use of these devices, applications, and services do not only help patients know how to manage their health and life for good purpose but assists healthcare providers to reduce emergency cases, track patients, staff, and inventory; enhance drug management for the overall control of epidemics. Also, the understanding of the use of these technologies helps in simultaneous reporting and monitoring, end-to-end connectivity and affordability, data assortment and analysis, remote medical assistance, tracking and alerts. Devices involving hardware and software technologies for smart healthcare system are revealed to enhance medical service delivery to both in-patients and outpatients. Findings show that cell phone with radio-frequency identification (RFID)-sensor capabilities can serve as a platform for ideal healthcare delivery. Healthcare data insecurity and privacy through multiple devices and protocols are the major limitations of IoT applications in healthcare delivery noticed in the course of this study. This is a serious issue as vital information about patient which is in the cloud can only be accessible through IoT multiple devices and protocols