ABSTRACT
The digitization in healthcare sector, which includes enormous data quantities generated from medical establishments, personal health monitoring devices, medical research etc., demands to be effectively managed and explored in order to provide better services and products. Internet of Things (IoT) enables the interconnection of different devices used for the electronic healthcare (e-healthcare) services, and the interoperability in this heterogeneous environment can be facilitated through semantic web technologies (SWTs). Both the collected data and the functionality of the devices and services used for web based healthcare makes them of great interest to intruders who are looking for vulnerabilities in devices or for data leaks. Hence, maintaining the security of the private e-healthcare data is a critical aspect. In this chapter, significant security challenges and measures in IoT-based healthcare systems have been explored, along with issues and solutions offered by semantic web of things (SWoT). This is followed by a comparison of existing SWoT models based on some parameters and a generic model design for secure e-healthcare services based on IoT and SWTs has been drafted.
