The Role of Wireless and Information Technologies in Healthcare: IoT-based Customized Applications

Abstract

Conventional healthcare systems have faced historic challenges trying to meet the varying needs of large groups of patients that have been far too inefficient and suboptimum as an outcome. With advances in machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models, we are entering an exciting time in healthcare where hospitals and healthcare systems can begin to deliver value-based care by providing highly personalized and effective treatment for patients. The healthcare systems of the future are expected to provide patients with affordable, high-quality treatments using a range of applications made possible by information and communication technologies. This is because these wirelessly enabled medical systems are able to remotely and continually check on the health of patients in both indoor and outdoor environments, which makes patients feel more at ease and allows them to accomplish more things. The healthcare industry is increasingly being shaped by advancements in information and communication technologies (ICTs). The purpose of the research is to clarify the relationship between ICTs and healthcare by defining the most widely used ICT-based healthcare paradigms and the primary ICTs that support them. The main ICT-based healthcare models that have surfaced recently as a result of ICT breakthroughs are described below. We can also determine the technological foundations of the innovative uses of these developments by examining the scientific literature. The study ends by outlining significant unresolved research questions and concerns, many of which are particularly connected to future IoT-based healthcare systems.