A Semantic Interoperability Approach to Heterogeneous Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Platforms

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a collection of medical devices and software applications used to interconnect local or remote healthcare systems. In this paper, we present a formal review of research related to the use of Semantic Web to solve IoMT interoperability problems. The use of IoMT promotes personalized health and wellness as well as higher standards of care using individualized data-driven treatments. It is estimated that there will be a significant increase in the utilization of IoMT platforms in the future. The large number of isolated platforms will pose an interoperability issue when a treatment requires the use of two or more IoMT platforms. One approach to address this problem is through the use of Semantic Web technologies that add semantics to IoMT using one-to-one ontology alignment and central ontology approaches.