Special issue: Empowering eHealth with smart internet of things (IoT) medical devices

Abstract

The use of Internet of Things (IoT) with medical devices within a connected health environment promotes the quick flow of information and enables easy access to it. In such an environment, the patient’s vital parameters are transmitted by medical devices onto secure cloud based platforms where they are stored, aggregated and analyzed. IoT helps to store data for millions of patients and perform analysis in real-time, promoting an evidence-based medicine system. This Special Issue has focused on pioneering future directions and innovation in smart wearable embedded solutions and IoT with applications in connected health, biomedical signal processing and smart environments. More specifically, it aimed to gather research papers that emphasize the challenges for medical devices caused by the IoT, that highlight the main research gaps in the area of connected health and smart wearable devices and eventually to respond to the following questions: