Smart Medical Devices to Help Patients and Health Workers: A Survey

IoT(Internet of Things) devices are very useful tools for health monitoring, telehealth and teleconsultation. They bring a very positive added value to the different modes of health intervention. Health is one of the most valuable aspects of our lives. In some countries, especially in developing countries, health facilities are not sufficiently developed to meet the needs of the population for primary health care and emergency response. Therefore, there is a need to replace these gaps with IoT devices that will fill the medical deserts. For this reason, in this article, a general review of the literature on IoT devices for health is done. It results in a proposal for a new type of intelligent medical device to assist patients and health workers equipped with sensors for the automatic collection of patients' physiological data in order to make medical consultation more easily accessible to all and at a distance and, on the other hand, to alleviate the shortage of health workers and, moreover, to free doctors from the repetitive tasks they perform at each examination so that they can concentrate on the care to be administered and the psychological care of patients.