IoT Use Cases and Implementations

This chapter introduces a secure digital remote patient monitoring solution, which is a healthcare Internet of Things system that can be implemented on virtual machines. With this solution, a patient could be monitored and served remotely, and health services could be provided to people far away from hospitals and by experts not necessarily available in the nearest hospital. In addition, the solution applies the concept of eHealth to increase information sharing about the disease and patient awareness regarding their risk factors to improve self‐care. This solution extends electrocardiogram monitoring from a typical 24‐48 hour holtering case to multiple 48 hour sessions across a post‐discharge care plan of several months. The chapter describes the remote patient monitoring platform in general. It discusses the security concerns related to digital health technologies and briefly reviews available safeguard and authentication techniques to secure a digital health system.