ABSTRACT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a pulsating field; it has been the center of research in recent years. The most important work of any smart system is to raise the quality and wellbeing of life. In recent years there is a huge demand for smart products in the healthcare industry. Healthcare is a gigantic ecosystem that includes personal care, smart pills, smart beds, glucometers, and more. IoT has susceptible and potential possibilities in medicine especially for the elderly. Not only for physical health, but also for mental health, it can play an important role. The healthcare industry can make healthcare easy in terms of pocket-friendly and associable devices. IoT-based medical devices can gather a huge amount of data that can give a vision to the symptoms and can enable the remote care of patients and equipment. It can be used for real-time tracking of equipment like a wheelchair, oxygen tanks, and more. This data can be a cash cow for healthcare organizations to improve the care of patients and for the prediction of chronic diseases. It can help tackle emergency situations in a better way. However with the benefits come the demerits, given this susceptible data that contains bulk private information comes a crushing need for preventing abuse of this data. This chapter presents a discursive study of the latest vulnerabilities and security-related challenges in IoT in the healthcare system and also the ways to handle these issues. It is a new era of onward thinking, and an increased consciousness of human healthcare.
