Internet of Things (IoT) Applications in hospitals: A Systematic Review
Internet of Things (IoT) Applications in hospitals
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Fatemeh Ameri
,
Azam Sabahi
,
Negar Ranjbar
,
Seyed Reza Hoseini
,
Reyhaneh Khosrojerdi
,
Erfan Rajabi
,
Meisam Dastani
Abstract
Context: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of wireless, interconnected and digital devices that can collect and store data in a network without the need for human-to-human or human-to-computer interactions. Due to the important technology in hospitals and health centers, this systematic review was conducted with the objective of applying the IoT in hospitals.
Methods: The present study is a systematic review according to Prisma guidelines, which was conducted in 2021. The searches were done in three scientific databases of PubMed, Scopus, and ISI Web of Science, using a combination of keywords, such as the IoT and hospital. The review of the titles, abstracts, and full texts of the articles was performed independently by two researchers. Finally, data were collected from original research articles that used the IoT in hospitals.
Results: A total of 20 articles were included in the study. In 13 articles, the use of IoT was mentioned to reduce and control dust levels and improve the quality of health of wards. Moreover, the capability to use and install IoT systems on mobile phones and their use to monitor health improvement were addressed in two articles. In addition, the benefits of using the IoT to save time and keep users' information confidential were discussed in some other reviewed articles.
Conclusions: The results of this investigation indicated that the IoT system in hospitals increased the quality of healthcare and increased patient satisfaction. In addition, IoT technology can be significantly accurate in controlling various hospital infections. This technology can also improve the security of devices and databases in the hospital. In general, the use of IoT increases the efficiency of hospitals and health centers.
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41. Ida IB, Jemai A, editors. Cloud Service for Edge Configuration in Home-Based Healthcare Context. International conference on the Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications; 2018: Springer.
2. Parei A, Hamidi H. A Method for FIDO Management through Biometric Technology in IoT. Information Sciences & Technology. 2018;33(2):803-56.
3. Kelly JT, Campbell KL, Gong E, Scuffham P. The Internet of Things: Impact and Implications for Health Care Delivery. J Med Internet Res. 2020;22(11):e20135.
4. Bringing the Internet of Things to healthcare 03 Sep 2018 [updated 2019.
5. Tavakoli M, Shersavar HR, Nasiripour AA. The Effect of Using Internet of Things on Organizational Performance in Health Related Issues (Case Study: Shahid Rajaee Hospital in Tehran). Journal of Health Management. 2017;8(2):45-62.
6. Ghasemi R, Mohaghar A, Safari H, Jokar MRA. Prioritizing the Applications of Internet of Things Technology in the Healthcare Sector in Iran: A Driver for Sustainable Development. Journal of Information Technology Management. 2016;8(26):155-76.
7. Cousin M, Castillo-Hi T, Snyder C H y. Devices and diseases: How the IoT is transforming medtech The Internet of Things in the medical devices industry. Deloitte university press. 2015.
8. Khanna A, Misra P. The internet of things for medical devices-prospects, challenges and the way forward. Tata. 2014:1-12.
9. Keh H, Shih C, Chou K, Cheng Y, Ho H, Yu Pea. Integrating Unified Communications and Internet of M- Health Things with Micro Wireless Physiological Sensors. Journal of Applied Science and Engineering. 2014;17(3):319-28.
10. Perera C, Zaslavsky A, Christen P, Georgakopoulos D. Sensing as a service model for smart cities supported by the internet of things. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 2014;25(1):81-93.
11. Namazi Z, Kalantari N, Nezamolhosaini A. Internet of things and smart health, benefit and challenges ahead, Tehran: Knowledge reference. 2015.
12. Dimiter V, Dimitrov M. Medical Internet of Things and Big Data in Healthcare. Health care information research. 2016;22(3):156-63.
13. Dang LM, Piran M, Han D, Min K, Moon H. A survey on the internet of things and cloud computing for healthcare. Electronics. 2019;8(7):768.
14. Chiuchisan I, Chiuchisan I, Dimian M, editors. Internet of Things for e-Health: An approach to medical applications. 2015 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (IWCIM); 2015 29-30 Oct. 2015.
15. Gómez J, Oviedo B, Zhuma E. Patient monitoring system based on internet of things. Procedia Computer Science. 2016;83:90-7.
16. Mukhtar S. Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak. The International journal of social psychiatry. 2020;66(5):512-6.
17. Li J, Li X, Jiang J, Xu X, Wu J, Xu Y, et al. The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in psychiatry. 2020;11:580827.
18. Nasiri S, Sadoughi F, Tadayon MH, Dehnad A. Security and privacy mechanisms of Internet of things in healthcare and non-healthcare industry. Journal of Health Administration. 2019;22(78):86-105.
19. Fele Kari Z. Analysis of IoT Challenges in the Field of Health (Case Study: Using Technology to Optimize Devices Used by the Disabled). majournal. 2021;5(72):137-48.
20. Liberati A, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Mulrow C, Gøtzsche PC, Ioannidis JP, et al. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2009;62(10):e1-e34.
21. Page MJ, McKenzie JE, Bossuyt PM, Boutron I, Hoffmann TC, Mulrow CD, et al. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. Bmj. 2021;372.
22. Gonzalez-Palacio M, Moncada SV, Luna-delRisco M, Gonzalez-Palacio L, Montealegre JJQ, Orozco CAA, et al., editors. Internet of things baseline method to improve health sterilization in hospitals: An approach from electronic instrumentation and processing of steam quality. 2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI); 2018: IEEE.
23. Hanada E, Kudou T, editors. Managing the electromagnetic environment of hospital IoT systems. 2018 IEEE international symposium on electromagnetic compatibility and 2018 IEEE Asia-Pacific symposium on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC/APEMC); 2018: IEEE.
24. Akbarzadeh O, Baradaran M, Khosravi MR. IoT-Based Smart Management of Healthcare Services in Hospital Buildings during COVID-19 and Future Pandemics. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2021;2021.
25. Jinila YB, Thomas JJ, Shan BP, editors. Internet of Things Enabled Approach for Hygiene Monitoring in Hospitals. 2020 4th International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP); 2020: IEEE.
26. Joseph S, Francis N, John A, Farha B, Baby A, editors. Intravenous drip monitoring system for smart hospital using IoT. 2019 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation and Control Technologies (ICICICT); 2019: IEEE.
27. Catherwood PA, McLaughlin J. Internet of Things-enabled hospital wards: Ultrawideband doctor-patient radio channels. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 2018;60(3):10-8.
28. Fischer GS, Righi RdR, Ramos GdO, Costa CAd, Rodrigues JJPC. ElHealth: Using Internet of Things and data prediction for elastic management of human resources in smart hospitals. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 2020;87:103285.
29. Nandyala CS, Kim H-K. From cloud to fog and IoT-based real-time U-healthcare monitoring for smart homes and hospitals. International Journal of Smart Home. 2016;10(2):187-96.
30. Mohaghar A, Taghizadeh Yazdi MR, Jolai F, Mohammadi M, Atashin Panjeh S. Conceptual Modeling of the Internet of Things Implementation in Hospitals Supply Chain. Journal of Information Technology Management. 2019;11(1):1-23.
31. Uslu BÇ, Okay E, Dursun E. Analysis of factors affecting IoT-based smart hospital design. Journal of Cloud Computing. 2020;9(1):1-23.
32. Nursuwars F, Rahmatulloh A, editors. RFID for nurse activity monitoring in the hospital's nurse call system with the Internet of Things (IoT) concept. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering; 2019: IOP Publishing.
33. Ida IB, Balti M, Chabaane S, Jemai A, editors. Self-adaptative Early Warning Scoring system for smart hospital. International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics; 2020: Springer.
34. Urbanczyk T, Peter L. Database development for the urgent department of hospital based on tagged entity storage following the IoT concept. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 2016;49(25):278-83.
35. Yamashita Y, Iwasaki H, Muroi Y, Hida M, Shigemi H. Development of In-Hospital Infection Management Using IoT. 2019.
36. Espinoza MGT, Melendrez JRN, Clemente LAN. A survey and an IoT cybersecurity recommendation for public and private hospitals in Ecuador. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems. 2020;5(3):518-28.
37. Kang S, Baek H, Jung E, Hwang H, Yoo S. Survey on the demand for adoption of Internet of Things (IoT)-based services in hospitals: Investigation of nurses' perception in a tertiary university hospital. Applied Nursing Research. 2019;47:18-23.
38. Fischer GS, Righi RdR, Costa CAd, Galante G, Griebler D. Towards evaluating proactive and reactive approaches on reorganizing human resources in IoT-based smart hospitals. Sensors. 2019;19(17):3800.
39. Balaguera HU, Wise D, Ng CY, Tso H-W, Chiang W-L, Hutchinson AM, et al. Using a medical Intranet of Things system to prevent bed falls in an acute care hospital: a pilot study. Journal of medical Internet research. 2017;19(5):e150.
40. Aguirre E, Lopez-Iturri P, Azpilicueta L, Rivarés C, Astrain JJ, Villadangos J, et al. Design and performance analysis of wireless body area networks in complex indoor e-Health hospital environments for patient remote monitoring. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2016;12(9):1550147716668063.
41. Ida IB, Jemai A, editors. Cloud Service for Edge Configuration in Home-Based Healthcare Context. International conference on the Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications; 2018: Springer.
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Ameri F, Sabahi A, Ranjbar N, Hoseini SR, Khosrojerdi R, Rajabi E, Dastani M. Internet of Things (IoT) Applications in hospitals: A Systematic Review. Health Tech Ass Act. 2022;5(4).
