Role of IoT and Bigdata Analytics in Healthcare for Disease Prediction

One of the major issues to worry nowadays is the busy life cycle people follow and the effect they have on the health. This busy life cycle has made people to neglect their health. In India many people are below poverty line and even majority of population stays in rural places and cost of medical treatment is too high. Under these situations, it is not feasible for people to afford costly medical treatment. We have seen people being admitted to hospitals at the last hour and being forced to follow traditional medical practices and lose their lives. To address this issue, we need a remote health monitoring system that could alert people about their health condition and people can get medical diagnosis done remotely. In this paper, we discuss, the role played by IoT and bigdata analytics in the field of healthcare. We also discuss the benefits, challenges and applications of these technologies. We propose a system to monitor heart condition of a patient using IoT which alerts the patient or doctor if any abnormality is observed. This system could further be scaled to provide real time health monitoring to predict various diseases using bigdata and ml analytics.