Interoperability: A Challenge for IoMT

Abstract

Internet of Medical Things is the interconnectivity of highly sophisticated medical grade devices and software applications to work together and provide a new improved version of health care environment in this era. Wearable and standalone devices like Fitbit, remote patient monitoring system use sensor technology to exchange medical information of patients from remote areas to health workforces’ over wireless network. Apart from being advantageous IoMT faces challenges like safety, cyber security and scalability, interoperability, verification and validation. Interoperability is a facility through which m-health devices, databases share and maintains health records seamlessly. Interoperability basically deals with the exchange, interpretation and usage of data delivered through different computerized gadgets without restrictions. Currently there are numerous government-certified EHR products each of which has different technical, clinical and serviceable capabilities. Being heterogeneous in nature it becomes hard to achieve a single standard interoperability format to exchange data.