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Volume 3, Issue 1
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Abstract

Internet of Things (H-IoT) technologies related to health are becoming increasingly important in managing patient health. These include preventing disease, monitoring patient functions in real-time telemonitoring, testing treatments, tracking fitness and well-being, distributing medications, and gathering data for health research. H-IoT promises numerous advantages for healthcare. However, it also raises several ethical issues due to the dangers of using Internet-enabled devices, the delicate nature of data about health, and how these issues influence the healthcare system. Healthcare IoT is designed to work in both public and private domains. The sensors and equipment are carried by the person or placed in locations such as homes, workplaces, or hospital wards. These circumstances allow the third party a chance to gather and analyze information about a person's behavior or health. While remote monitoring and faster response healthcare is getting better these days, the technologies used in it also present chances for data or personal privacy breaches. It has been noted that malevolent attackers targeting mobile devices typically have specific objectives, such as obtaining user or patient data, causing harm to system resources, or even terminating vital programs. Concerns over data privacy and autonomy, data quality, intellectual property, algorithmic bias, unprotected consumer gadgets, hackable automobiles, and the responsibility of IoT systems are some ethical challenges surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT). Additionally, potential loss of trust, invasions of privacy, improper use of data, inconsistent copyright, digital divide, identity theft, difficulties with control and information access, and freedom of speech and expression are some more concerns. Methods like algorithmic social contracts, programming moral behavior, and rules and codes of ethics for IoT developers must all be used to address these ethical dilemmas.

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Keyword(s): artificial intelligence; data privacy; H-IoT; internet of medical things; internet of things; Social internet of things

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