Impact of IoT devices in E-Health: A Review on IoT in the context of COVID-19 and its variants.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Fagroud, Fatima Zahra Toumi, Hicham Ben Lahmar, El Habib Talhaoui, Mohamed Amine Achtaich, Khadija Filali, Sanaa El
Copyright Year	2021
Abstract	Actually, COVID-19 and its variants present a big challenge for the public health security. COVID-19 is a new form of the coronaviruses characterized by a set of symptoms like laboratory and radiological symptoms, when the first case has confirmed in December 2019 in Wuhan City, as well as a new variant of this form has appeared in December 2020 in the United Kingdom. Internet of things (IoT) is a technological revolution employed in different areas in the aim to serve the asked purposes. The implementation of IoT solutions in healthcare area has several benefits such as reducing the cost of services and improving treatment results. In this paper, we present a review on the impact of IoT on this new health challenge (COVID-19 and its variants), we will focus this study on the impact of the use of IoT devices to reduce transmissions of COVID-19 and its variants.
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Journal	Procedia Computer Science [Procedia Comput Sci]
Volume Number	191
DOI	10.1016/j.procs.2021.07.046
PubMed Central reference number	PMC8424414
PubMed reference number	34512818
e-ISSN	18770509
Language	English
Publisher	The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Publisher Date	2021-09-08
Access Restriction	Open
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Subject Keyword	Coronavirus COVID-19 Internet of Things IoT devices IoT applications
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science