Opportunities and Challenges Faced by IoB in Digital Medical and Health Communication

Qiangchun Wang

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Opportunities and Challenges Faced by IoB in Digital Medical and Health Communication

Qiangchun Wang

Published in Science, Technology & Public Policy (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 15 August 2022 Accepted: 29 August 2022 Published: 5 September 2022

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Abstract

The Internet of Body (IoB) is changing the global digital medical ecological environment. As many connected, implanted, or ingested IoB devices generate massive biometric and human behavior data to monitor, analyze and even improve health, scientific decisions and actions are urgently needed to address the ethical and legal issues. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, numerous IoB technologies and data are being used to monitor and track the novel coronavirus. In the post-pandemic era, the IoB has become the focus of public attention, arousing people’s expectations for application prospects and sparking debate about potential risks. Can these devices help public health departments predict, strengthen management, avoid damage to personal health, and protect user personal information data from misuse? This paper mainly adopts the method of literature survey and case study to discuss what is an IoB device, the classification, characteristics of the devices, and the social benefits and risk control of the devices to ensure data rights, data security, network security, user privacy, which will promote the healthy development of IoB in the health care, work, and life of the people. While supporting the development of IoB technology, we should strengthen supervision, make predictions, strengthen management, protect the health of individuals and groups, maintain network security and data security, and keep users’ personal information and data from being abused.

Published in	Science, Technology & Public Policy (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.stpp.20220602.11
Page(s)	57-63
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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IoB, Digital Medicine, Health Communication, Post-Epidemic Era, Social Benefit, Risk Control

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School of Fusion Media, Sichuan University of Media and Communications, Chengdu, China

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