Towards Building Internet-of-Things-Inclusive Healthcare for Neglected Tropical Diseases

This work presents a comprehensive review of e-health and d-health systems and the individual components used in each. It presents information and communication technologies to detect, control, and manage NTDs, highlighting their features and functionalities. The chapter highlights some biosensors explicitly developed to diagnose NTDs, paving the way for an internet of things-inclusive e-health system for NTDs. This chapter proposes an internet of things-inclusive e-health model for NTDs offering special services to NTD-affected people besides other fundamental e-health services for a smarter medical environment for patients. The model shall be useful to implement an internet of things-inclusive e-health system including applications and mobile Apps. The e-health system, including app and the application, shall be useful to NTD-affected people, volunteers, attendants, doctors, and researchers. It shall also benefit governments, policymakers, social activists, and other stakeholders to build an e-health vision, action plan, and monitoring framework.