Integrating M-Health with IoMT to Counter COVID-19

With the alarming escalation of COVID infection across the globe, there seems a dire need of upgrading the conventional medical practices and technologies in order to battle the pandemic. There are many technological advancements in the direction of integrating emergent technologies with the current medical practices for efficient treatment of COVID crisis and other therapeutic strategies. The proposed intent is aimed to explain such technological advancements like IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and mHealth and their combined utilization in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter highlights the works done in integrating Medical Science with emergent technologies such as Robotics, Cognitive Radio System, Wearable and Ingestible Sensory devices, Mobile phones and their significance in providence of medical facilities at doorstep, and 5G technologies in Medical applications. All these elucidations are followed by highlighting their utilization in combating the COVID pandemic through various approaches. This chapter also discusses their current limitations in practical medical world and future aspects of advancements in the medical science.