IOT-Based Remote Patient Monitoring System Using Microservices Architecture

Medical and healthcare monitoring system has had rapid growth in not only hospitals but other health-related centers as well. Effect of a wrong prescription leads to death of a patient, also unnecessary medicine prescription is the burden for the guardians or caretakers. IoT (Internet of things) allows a variety of devices to interact with each other to enable monitoring, storage, analysis and display. This paper explores the developments taken in the field of patient monitoring systems to avoid wrong and unnecessary prescription, and through this research, we found that selecting IoT protocol to design the system is important and depends on the system requirements like number of data sending nodes (Data Producers), network traffic hitting the server, scalability, network latency and real-time requirement. This paper proposes the design of a real-time patient monitoring system with microservices architecture to send patient’s data from ICU to the doctors and guardians. The proposed system also helps to reduce unnecessary prescription and billing.