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Healthcare industry has been relegated to services of innovation and even we can say that healthcare industry has been slower to embrace the Internet of things (IoT) due to our earlier legitimate concern about security and privacy But in the recent years and according to Deloitte report, it’s been noted that more than 500,000 medical technologies are currently accessible to collect, analyze and transmit healthcare data;evolving the future of healthcare services by allocating end to end data encryption security and providing greater privacy options to patient And now when the whole world is facing the rapid expansion of COVID-19, where the social and physical distancing is a matter of concern for the frontline clinical healthcare provider and the patients, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) had played an indispensable role in tackling COVID-19 It not only accelerates our response to this widespread pandemic but also offers many innovative solutions to retaliate this global issue Remote monitoring and evaluating of large number COVID-19 patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or in ventilators by few medical health professionals, providing telemedicine services to the people dwelling in lockdown or quarantine, and encouraging behavioral modification of patients;has opened the door to more efficient healthcare delivery during this time of ‘New Normal’ With new technology, however comes new challenges which have to fix together to make this technology works more efficiently, especially in the rural areas, where it needs the most © 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
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