EVALUATION OF IOT-DRIVEN EHEALTH: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS MODELS AND OPPORTUNITIES, DEPLOYMENT AND EVOLUTION

摘要

eHealth has a major potential, and its adoption may be considered necessary to achieve increased ambulant and remote medical care, increased quality, reduced personnel needs, and reduced costs potential in healthcare. In this paper the authors give a reasonable, qualitative evaluation of IoT-driven eHealth from theoretical and practical viewpoints. They look at knowledge management issues and contributions of IoT to eHealth, along with requirements, benefits, limitations and entry barriers. They give important attention to security and privacy issues and, also, consider conditions for business plans and accompanying value chains. The authors conclude that IoT-driven eHealth can happen and will happen; however, much more must be addressed to bring it back in sync with medical and general technological developments in an industrial state-of-the-art perspective, as well as much more must be recognized to get timely the benefits.