The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

Preface

It is a pleasure for us to put forth this book, The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT): Healthcare Transformation. Digital technologies have come into effect in various sectors of our daily lives and it has been successful in influencing and conceptualizing our day-to-day activities. The Internet of Medical Things is one such discipline which seeks a lot of interest as it combines various medical devices and allows these devices to have a conversation among themselves over a network to form a connection of advanced smart devices. This book helps to know about IoMT in the health care sector that involves the latest technological implementation in diagnostic level as well as therapeutic level. The security and privacy of maintaining the health records is a major concern and several solutions for the same has been discussed in this book. It provides significant advantages for the wellbeing of people by increasing the quality of life and reducing medical expenses. IoMT plays a major role in maintaining smart healthcare system as the security and privacy of the health records further leads to help the health care sector to be more secure and reliable. Artificial Intelligence is the other enabling technology that helps IoMT in building smart defensive mechanisms for a variety of applications like providing assistance for doctors in almost every area of their proficiencies such as clinical decision-making. Through Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques, the system can ...