• DocumentCode
    3053362
  • Title

    Internet of things and its benefits to improve service delivery in public health approach

  • Author

    Suraki, Morteza Yaghoubi ; Jahanshahi, Mohsen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of IT & Comput. Eng., Islamic Azad Univ., Qazvin, Iran
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    23-25 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    With the advent of Internet connectivity to things, Internet of Things (IoT) can cover various aspects related to the extension of the Internet and the Web into the physical realm. In physical realm, Public health is very important for governments and people. Managing and organizing information about people can help to improve the social health. Internet of Things is the best way for gathering information in personal and public level. In fact, IoT can be used as an infrastructure for having a healthy society. In this paper, we described that how we can use IoT for public health and how the governments can help people.
  • Keywords
    Web services; biomedical communication; health care; medical information systems; Internet connectivity; Internet of things; Web; information management; information organizing; physical realm; public health approach; service delivery; social health; Diseases; Government; Internet; Public healthcare; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless communication; Internet of Things; Public Health; RFID;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2013 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baku
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6419-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICAICT.2013.6722745
  • Filename
    6722745