A study on security issues in healthcare applications using medical wireless sensor network and IoT

Internet of Things (IoT) promises to be a reliable technology for the future in different sectors including
health. The health sector is one of the fields which is rapidly adopting IoT solutions with the aim to improve health care
services; resulting to security vulnerabilities. This paper uses exploratory method with an objective to review various
literature on application of IoTs in e-health based on the latest publications and technologies available in the health
sector. In addition analyze the various software platforms available in the field of IoT in e-health. The literature on the
security and privacy challenges and threats faced by the IoT in the health industry have also been explored. The results
of this paper show that Energy Optimization, Denial of services, Physical attacks, Data manipulation, Trust and Privacy
are key threats to the implementation of IoT in the health sector. The mitigation strategies to managing the identified
security issues including trust and privacy challenges owing the level of data confidentiality required for healthcare
organizations using IoT have been discussed.