Department of Computer Science, Applied College, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Computer Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam 1342, Korea.
Sensors (Basel). 2022 Sep 26;22(19):7304. doi: 10.3390/s22197304.
The importance of the IoT is increasing in every field of life, and it especially has a significant role in improving the efficiency of the healthcare system. Its demand further increased during COVID-19 to facilitate the patient remotely from their home digitally. Every time the COVID-19 patient visited the doctor for minor complications, it increased the risk of spreading the virus and the cost for the patient. Another alarming situation arose when a patient was in a critical position and may not claim an emergency service from the nearby healthcare system, increasing the death rate. The IoT uses healthcare services to properly monitor COVID-19 patients by using the interconnected network to overcome these issues. Through the IoT, the patient is facilitated by the health care system without spreading the virus, decreasing the death ratio during COVID-19. This paper aims to discuss different applications, technologies, and challenges of the IoT healthcare system, related to COVID-19. Different databases were searched using keywords in PubMed, ResearchGate, Scopus, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, Google Scholar, etc. This paper is trying to discuss, identify, and highlight the useful applications of the IoT healthcare system to provide guidelines to the researchers, healthcare institutions, and scientists to overcomes the hazards of COVID-19 pandemics. Hence, IoT is beneficial by identifying the symptoms of COVID-19 patients and by providing better treatments that use the healthcare system efficiently. At the end of the paper, challenges and future work are discussed, along with useful suggestions through which scientists can benefit from the IoT healthcare system during COVID-19 and in a severe pandemic. The survey paper is not limited to the healthcare system and COVID-19, but it can be beneficial for future pandemics or in a worse situation.
物联网的重要性在生活的各个领域都在不断增加，尤其是在提高医疗系统效率方面具有重要作用。在 COVID-19 期间，它的需求进一步增加，以便能够远程为患者提供数字化医疗服务。每次 COVID-19 患者因轻微并发症去看医生，都会增加病毒传播的风险和患者的成本。另一个令人担忧的情况是，当患者处于危急状态并且可能无法从附近的医疗系统获得紧急服务时，死亡率会增加。物联网利用医疗服务，通过使用互联网络来正确监测 COVID-19 患者，从而克服这些问题。通过物联网，医疗保健系统为患者提供便利，同时不会传播病毒，从而降低 COVID-19 期间的死亡率。本文旨在讨论物联网医疗系统在 COVID-19 方面的不同应用、技术和挑战。使用 PubMed、ResearchGate、Scopus、ACM、Springer、Elsevier、Google Scholar 等数据库中的关键字搜索了不同的数据库。本文旨在讨论、识别和突出物联网医疗系统的有用应用，为研究人员、医疗机构和科学家提供指导，以克服 COVID-19 大流行的危害。因此，物联网通过识别 COVID-19 患者的症状并提供更好的治疗方法，从而有效地利用医疗系统，是有益的。在本文的最后，讨论了挑战和未来的工作，并提出了一些有用的建议，通过这些建议，科学家可以在 COVID-19 和严重大流行期间受益于物联网医疗系统。该调查论文不仅限于医疗系统和 COVID-19，还可以为未来的大流行或更糟糕的情况提供帮助。
