01745nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001100001600042700002200058700001900080700001900099700001800118700001900136700001800155245010900173856004600282490000700328520120200335022001401537       2023                            d1 aManar Osama1 aAbdelhamied Ateya1 aMohammed Sayed1 aMohamed Hammad1 aPawel Plawiak1 aAhmed El-Latif1 aRania Elsayed00aInternet of Medical Things and Healthcare 4.0: Trends, Requirements, Challenges, and Research Directions  uhttps://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/17/74350 v233 a<p>Healthcare 4.0 is a recent e-health paradigm associated with the concept of Industry 4.0. It provides approaches to achieving precision medicine that delivers healthcare services based on the patient’s characteristics. Moreover, Healthcare 4.0 enables telemedicine, including telesurgery, early predictions, and diagnosis of diseases. This represents an important paradigm for modern societies, especially with the current situation of pandemics. The release of the fifth-generation cellular system (5G), the current advances in wearable device manufacturing, and the recent technologies, e.g., artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), are the main drivers of evolutions of Healthcare 4.0 systems. To this end, this work considers introducing recent advances, trends, and requirements of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and Healthcare 4.0 systems. The ultimate requirements of such networks in the era of 5G and next-generation networks are discussed. Moreover, the design challenges and current research directions of these networks. The key enabling technologies of such systems, including AI and distributed edge computing, are discussed.</p>
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