IoT-enabled Smart Healthcare Systems, Services and Applications

6A Review of e‐Healthcare System of India and Thailand

Shanu Bhardwaj, S.N. Panda, Priyanka Datta, Rajesh Kumar Kaushal, and Naveen Kumar

Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India

6.1 Introduction

e‐health care is the technology that leads to quality treatment for patients, devices that improve the quality of life, and diagnostic tools for every human. e‐health defines the use of various sensors that capture parameters of the human body. The doctors use the sensor data for the better treatment of the patients. The latest technology, i.e., Internet of Things (IoT), improves the health care system [1]. It is the intersection of the medical sensors, smartphones or tablets, and embedded devices to design a system that provides real‐time healthcare to the patients, doctors, and medical caretakers to reduce time, save lives, and diminish expenses [2]. The concept of smart health must satisfy two main conditions. The first one is the achievement of better diagnostic tools and good treatment for patients. The second condition is recognized through the upgrading of life quality [3].

IoT is a platform where the sensors or devices or objects present in the network can communicate independently with other objects in the network [4]. It can send and receive data over the Internet without human interference. Nowadays people are becoming more concerned about health, but due to hectic workload or limitations due to aging, people are unable ...