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1 International Congress of Artificial Intelligence
st
in Medical Sciences Posters

Use of Internet of Things in Covid-19 pandemic

Ali Mirzaee Agh Gonbad 1, Sulmaz Soltanzadeh 1, and Ladan Soltanzadeh *
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1 Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
(Ladan.Soltanzadeh@gmail.com)

Background and aims: The internet of things, a network of embedded things with sensors, soft-
ware, and other technologies for exchanging healthcare data with other devices and systems,
played a role in the service of healthcare in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Method: A study was conducted between the years 2019 and 2022 and PubMed resource was
used to retrieve literature, using the key words internet of things, medical, covid-19, pandemic
to find published articles. 248 result found and after abstract review 25 articles were extracted.

Results: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet of things and different sensors that collect-
ed patient data allowed us to enhance healthcare services.
Conclusion: Monitoring patients’ vital signs and requiring actions when those vital signs changed
was the most advantageous use of IoT during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Keywords: Internet of Things, Covid-19, Healthcare

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