Background Information, Issues and Current Solutions The paper mainly focuses on the importance of IoT in healthcare industry. According to Kulkarni and Sathe (2014) earlier the healthcare industry faces problem in data maintenance, inconsistency in data entry as well as problem in accessibility of data due to the presence of manual health record system. However, adoption of IOT in healthcare industry assist in resolving the challenges that mainly occurs due to the use of manual system. In addition to this, utilization of IOT in healthcare industry assists in decreasing cost, improving management, reducing errors as well as helpful in enhancing the experience of the patients.
Shortcomings/ limitations in the current /existing solutions The utilization of IOT in healthcare industry creates number of security challenges including IoT device tampering as well as data breaches.
Importance of solving this problem The main need of the research is to resolve the security issues and challenges that the healthcare industry faces due to the adoption of IoT. It is necessary to solve these issues in order to protect data and information from breaching (Azzawi et al., 2016). Proper steps on resolving security challenges will be helpful in keeping the records of the patients securely.
- The Main aims of this research
The main aim of the research is to elaborate strategies that are helpful in resolving the security challenges that healthcare industry faces due to the adoption of IoT.
- The questions which need to be addressed in this research The research questions include:
1.What are the challenges that healthcare industry faces due to the adoption of IoT?
2.What type of security challenges does the healthcare industry faces due to th adoption of IoT?
3.How security challenges can be resolved?
- A Brief Description of Your Proposal It is identified that the adoption of IoT in healthcare industry assists in resolving many challenges like inconsistency in data entry, problem in data maintenance as well as accessibility which are mainly faced due to the utilization of manual health record system. In spite of the advantages, it is identified that the adoption of IoT creates number of security challenges within the healthcare industry (Yuehong et al., 2016) The security challenges generally include data breach, hacking of personal information of patients, misuse of data, improper communication, vulnerability related incidents and more. In order to resolve this type of security challenges, it is very much necessary for the healthcare industry to take adopt some important strategies before the utilization of IoT concept. The necessary steps that is required to taken in order to resolve the issue include proper authentication, securing constrained devices, securing communication, managing device updates, ensuring data privacy, ensuring cloud application as well as high availability.
- Factors affecting the research and ethical considerations (if needed)
The factors that are affecting the research include:
Time constraints: Proper time must be estimated for the research otherwise the research progress will be affected.
Budget: It is very much necessary to allocate proper amount of budget for the research so that the research can be completed successfully.
The ethical considerations related with the research are as follows:
- The members who are involved with the research must follow proper rules and regulations
- Physical as well as mental harassment must be avoided
- The data as well as information by the research must be collected from proper sources
- The Process or Methodology of Your Project The steps include:
- Introduction
- Problem statement
- Objective
- Research question
- Literature review
- Methodology
- Research limitation
- Research schedule
- Summary
In this research, secondary data analysis will be utilized. It is identified that number of journals as well as articles will be reviewed in order to collect proper information as well as data.
- Expected Outcomes
The healthcare industry will get benefit from this research. The strategies that are adopted for resolving the security challenges will be utilized by the companies that adopt IoT and can be able to provide proper experience to the customers without facing any difficulty.
Reference list
Azzawi, M.A., Hassan, R. and Bakar, K.A.A., 2016. A Review on Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 11(20), pp.10216-10221.
Kulkarni, A. and Sathe, S., 2014. Healthcare applications of the Internet of Things: A Review. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, 5(5), pp.6229-6232.
Yuehong, Y. I. N., Zeng, Y., Chen, X., & Fan, Y. (2016). The internet of things in healthcare: An overview. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 1, 3-13.
