Muhsen Ibrahim N, Rasheed Omar W, Habib Eiad A, Alsaad Rakan K, Maghrabi Mohannad K, Rahman Md A, Sicker Douglas, Wood William A, Beg Muhammad S, Sung Anthony D, Hashmi Shahrukh K
Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther. 2023 Jan 17;16(2):102-109. doi: 10.1016/j.hemonc.2021.09.003.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has penetrated many aspects of everyday human life. The use of IoT in healthcare has been expanding over the past few years. In this review, we highlighted the current applications of IoT in the medical literature, along with the challenges and opportunities. IoT use mainly involves sensors and wearables, with potential applications in improving the quality of life, personal health monitoring, and diagnosis of diseases. Our literature review highlights that the current main application studied in the literature is physical activity tracking. In addition, we discuss the current technologies that would help IoT-enabled devices achieve safe, quick, and meaningful data transfer. These technologies include machine learning/artificial intelligence, 5G, and blockchain. Data on current IoT-enabled devices are still limited, and future research should address these devices' effect on patients' outcomes and the methods by which their integration in healthcare will avoid increasing costs.
物联网（IoT）已经渗透到人类日常生活的许多方面。在过去几年中，物联网在医疗保健领域的应用一直在不断扩展。在本综述中，我们重点介绍了物联网在医学文献中的当前应用，以及面临的挑战和机遇。物联网的应用主要涉及传感器和可穿戴设备，在改善生活质量、个人健康监测和疾病诊断方面具有潜在应用价值。我们的文献综述强调，目前文献中研究的主要应用是身体活动跟踪。此外，我们还讨论了有助于物联网设备实现安全、快速且有意义的数据传输的当前技术。这些技术包括机器学习/人工智能、5G和区块链。目前关于物联网设备的数据仍然有限，未来的研究应关注这些设备对患者治疗结果的影响，以及它们融入医疗保健领域时避免增加成本的方法。
