A structured approach of the Internet-of-Things eHealth use cases

Abstract

In recent years healthcare industry, including here also the payers entities, pharmaceutical companies and other members of the ecosystem, shows a tremendous interest and potential for the usage of wireless sensors in various instances and for different purposes. As the utilization cases are very numerous we questioned if the number of applications is similarly large. In order to run this study we start establishing a classification of the use-cases and populate it with main scenarios used in healthcare. We found that despite a reasonably large taxonomy, applications use a low number of solutions with variations and add-ons. The main use-case is by far Remote Patient Monitoring that can be found together with some variations in the large majority of the studied scenarios and this is the use-case detailed below. The overall landscape is covered in a PhD thesis that approaches additional Internet-of-Things usage and benefits in healthcare)