Internet-of-Medical-Things

Dear Colleagues,

Modern healthcare systems, supported by information and communication technologies, provide solutions for improving illness prevention, facilitating chronic disease management, empowering patients, enabling the personalization of care, improving the productivity of healthcare provisioning, and improving the utilization of healthcare. Furthermore, they also enable the management of diseases outside institutions, as well as encourage citizens to remain healthy. Personal health systems and pervasive mobile monitoring focus on the development of innovative health services to empower individuals in well-being, disease prevention and chronic disease management, thus enhancing patient empowerment and self-care management. Healthcare is a vast ecosystem, and Internet of Things-related applications can be endless. IoT-enabling technologies have the potential to empower citizens to manage their own health and disease, and include smart medical sensors, remote eHealth monitoring, smartphone-enabled data aggregation, medical awareness and analysis, and context-aware assistive living technologies. To accomplish this we need to study and research the underlying architecture, whilst embracing remote monitoring for sensor data collection, functional and semantic interoperability, the extraction of relevant features for the detection of alarming and/or alerting subsystems, personalized feedback and recommendation services for the patient or informal caregiver, smart ubiquitous intelligent health systems and un-obstructive ubiquitous acquisition, the transmission and interpretation of different bio-signals from fixed or mobile locations, multi-purpose heterogeneous networking infrastructures providing in-transit persistent information storage for personal health systems, and monitoring environment services able to overcome current network instabilities and incompatibilities. This Issue focuses on research related to smart devices and IoT, and how these two tools have infiltrated healthcare spaces, with the ambition to co-create an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) ecosystem able to empower patient/citizens in their daily care activities, making them feel safer and be healthier, and improving the way in which physicians deliver healthcare. IoMT refers to networked medical devices and applications in healthcare, and IT has the potential to change future strategies for healthcare organizations and affect diagnostics, treatments and patient health management.

In this context, we invite researchers, physicians, computer scientists and engineers to present their experience and research work.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

• Internet of Medical Things, mHealth, eHealth, medical sensors and medical devices
• Wireless medical sensors technologies and wireless, mobile and wearable devices for pervasive healthcare
• Mobile technologies for healthcare delivery, enhanced monitoring and self-management of disease, wellbeing disease management and disease prevention
• 5G mobile networks, low power – high throughput wireless technologies
• Innovative communication and mobile technologies to support data collection and access, sharing, search and reasoning to assess and react to the pandemic
• Internet of Things for healthcare in smart monitoring and diverse environments (i.e. hospitals, home, assisted living)
• Patient monitoring in diverse environments (hospitals, nursing, assisted living)
• Wireless access in ubiquitous systems for healthcare professionals
• Interventions, limitations and the clinical acceptability of modern technologies with respect to applications for the digital patient, in terms of supporting personalized medicine
• Legal and ethical aspects of wearable, mobile monitoring, outdoor- and home-based telemedicine/eHealth applications
• Healthcare telemetry and telemedicine, remote diagnosis and patient management
• Service-oriented middleware architecture for medical device connectivity in personal health monitoring applications
• Technologies for the management and support of chronic diseases and the ageing population
• Social media pervasive technologies for healthcare enabling first response and civil protection
• Data mining, machine learning and signal processing
• Security for eHealth and modern healthcare mobile services
• Biometrics, and privacy-preserving mechanisms for individualized mHealth

Dr. Emmanouil G. Spanakis
Guest Editor

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• Internet of Medical Things 
• Wireless medical sensors technologies 
• Low power wireless lan technologies 
• mHealth 
• eHealth 
• Medical sensors and medical devices 
• 5G mobile networks 
• Medical grade networks