ABSTRACT
This chapter lays out foundational Internet of things (IoT) and cloud information-sharing requirements for healthcare, reviews existing and potential approaches to facilitate this integration, and analyzes methodologies for achieving heterogeneous data interoperability between various IoT sensor ecosystems. It describes the information-sharing requirements for a healthcare system infrastructure, and the corresponding security effects on infrastructure-as-a-service and private cloud solutions for data management. The chapter details requirements for secure and reliable data management and the integration of IoT-enabled healthcare. It discusses two related efforts that inspire requirements for improved interoperability and contribute to the changing paradigm within healthcare: mobile health and precision medicine. The chapter also discusses the challenges to address regarding the ownership of healthcare IoT data, and other integrated medical data sources. It presents the challenges and strategies necessary for data sharing in an IoT-enabled healthcare ecosystem. The chapter provides a general architecture for interoperability, and then discusses the current state of health record interoperability standards.
