ReviewJournal of medical Internet research2020
The Internet of Things: Impact and Implications for Health Care Delivery.
Review in Journal of medical Internet research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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95 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 434 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adoption of Internet of Things in Health Care: Weighted and Meta-Analytical Review of Theoretical Frameworks and Predictors.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence and big data in population health: a scoping review.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Pooled it
- Blockchain in Health Information Systems: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Internet-based Surveillance Systems and Infectious Diseases Prediction: An Updated Review of the Last 10 Years and Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2024Pooled it
- Health Care Professionals' Views on the Use of Passive Sensing, AI, and Machine Learning in Mental Health Care: Systematic Review With Meta-Synthesis.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Internet of Things in Pregnancy Care Coordination and Management: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- Health-Related Indicators Measured Using Earable Devices: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Empirical investigation of e-health intervention in cervical cancer screening: A systematic literature review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- The Impact of Nutrition and Oral Function Exercise on among Community-Dwelling Older People.Nutrients · 2023Trial
- Adoption and Safety Evaluation of Comfortable Nursing by Mobile Internet of Things in Pediatric Outpatient Sedation.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Trial
- Stakeholder Perspectives on Facilitators of and Barriers to the Implementation of Internet of Things-Equipped Powered Wheelchairs in Sweden: Qualitative Case Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2026Article
- Functionality Review of Mobile Apps for the Tracking and Self-Management of Fatigue: Systematic Search in App Stores and Content Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- From 5G smart hospitals to 6G-enabled learning hospitals: a governance-oriented framework for healthcare technology, policy, and responsible deployment.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Review
- Toward a human-centered digital ecosystem: bridging the "AI Chasm" in intelligent nosocomial infection monitoring.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of the Internet of Things for Improving Health of Non-Pregnant Women Living in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Enhancing IoT-based healthcare security with grey filter bayesian CNN and optimization algorithms.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Advancing Brain-Computer Interface Closed-Loop Systems for Neurorehabilitation: Systematic Review of AI and Machine Learning Innovations in Biomedical Engineering.JMIR biomedical engineering · 2025Review
- Bridging the gap: a paradigm shift in medical device regulations in India.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025Review
- A feedback-driven brain organoid platform enables automated maintenance and high-resolution neural activity monitoring.Internet of things (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Optimizing perimenopausal mental health by integrating precision biomarkers, digital health interventions, and psychosocial care.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of wireless, interrelated, and connected digital devices that can collect, send, and store data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. The IoT promises many benefits to streamlining and enhancing health care delivery to proactively predict health issues and diagnose, treat, and monitor patients both in and out of the hospital. Worldwide, government leaders and decision makers are implementing policies to deliver health care services using technology and more so in response to the novel COVID-19 pandemic. It is now becoming increasingly important to understand how established and emerging IoT technologies can support health systems to deliver safe and effective care. The aim of this viewpoint paper is to provide an overview of the current IoT technology in health care, outline how IoT devices are improving health service delivery, and outline how IoT technology can affect and disrupt global health care in the next decade. The potential of IoT-based health care is expanded upon to theorize how IoT can improve the accessibility of preventative public health services and transition our current secondary and tertiary health care to be a more proactive, continuous, and coordinated system. Finally, this paper will deal with the potential issues that IoT-based health care generates, barriers to market adoption from health care professionals and patients alike, confidence and acceptability, privacy and security, interoperability, standardization and remuneration, data storage, and control and ownership. Corresponding enablers of IoT in current health care will rely on policy support, cybersecurity-focused guidelines, careful strategic planning, and transparent policies within health care organizations. IoT-based health care has great potential to improve the efficiency of the health system and improve population health.
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