..., respectively. When compared with other ways it uses less electricity. When compared with EHDA and SPPDA, SHDCT achieves 5.85% and 18.86% greater residual energy, respectively. Originality/value In the health care sector, a series of interconnected medical devices collect data using IoT networks...

... in the number of enterprises and individuals storing data in the cloud. Cloud services are used by various organizations (education, medical and commercial) to store their data. In the health-care industry, for example, patient medical data is outsourced to a cloud server. Instead of relying onmedical service...

...Sandeep Kumar Reddy Thota; C. Mala; Geetha Krishnan Purpose A wireless body area network (WBAN) is a collection of sensing devices attached to a person’s body that is typically used during health care to track their physical state. This paper aims to study the security challenges and various...

...Hoang-Long Cao; Huynh Anh Duy Nguyen; Trong Hieu Luu; Huong Thi Thu Vu; Diep Pham; Van Thi Ngoc Vu; Hoang Hai Le; Duy Xuan Bach Nguyen; Trong Toai Truong; Hoang-Dung Nguyen; Chi-Ngon Nguyen Purpose COVID-19 hits every country’s health-care system and economy. There is a trend toward using...

.... The population of Saudi Arabia continues to age (>60 years of age) currently (5%) compared to other group ages. In 2050, it will increase rapidly to 20.9% of the Saudi population. The current research aims at examining the barriers that health-care providers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are experiencing...

... detection. Social implications Medical care can be provided to human beings with much ease and flexibility via remote monitoring. The user can be at any place, can do his/her everyday work while remotely being monitored of their health parameters and secured transmission of their data to the health-care...

... into consideration any context relevant to their operations. Examples of policies for health-care scenarios including drug prescription control, location tracking and emergency management are presented by Ajana et al. (2014) . The FlexRFID middleware, as described by Ajana et al. (2011...

... individuals with regular routines and behavioural patterns which can be improved by increasing the level of entropies in behavioural routines. Practical implications The paper includes implications for the utilisation in health care environments for elderly people and physically impaired individuals...