Computing Technologies for Healthcare IoT Software Systems

Cloud computing technology significantly emerged in various systems to enhance the platform and infrastructure of services. Fog and Edge computing technologies transform computing power and processing close to the end-user and resolve many data processing challenges. Healthcare IoT systems refer to using medical sensors and mobile computing to manage patients’ conditions and use cloud-based technologies to transfer collected patients’ data to the cloud computing storage. Many previous research efforts focused on the use of edge, fog, and cloud computing technologies in the field of healthcare IoT systems. However, no previous research study summarized the main research topics and trends in these research efforts. To that end, we conducted a systematic and comprehensive empirical research study to understand the main research topics and the employed computing technologies and trends in these research topics. This study investigated 100 research studies focusing on cloud-based technologies in the field of healthcare IoT systems published in highly reputable venues over the past decade.