The Role of IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Maternal Health
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2021-10Author
Bundi, Dorothy
Thiga, Moses
Mutua, Stephen
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Ingeniously, the innovations taking place in current medical era, where
technology plays a dynamic role in pregnant women care taking both inside hospital and
outside. Integration of Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine
Learning (ML) and Blockchain technologies is deemed to ensure the effective and
efficient care of pregnant women in any environment because intelligent tiny devices like
Radio Frequency Tags (RF-Tags), Sensors are attached with pregnant women, and all the
activities of pregnant women can be monitored by professional medical staff from
anywhere and anytime. The usage of these advanced destructive technologies in pregnant
women care environment, absolutely eradicates the pregnancy complications and harmful
incidents, but also promotes privacy, integrity and availability of maternal health systems.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the usage of IoT, artificial intelligence, machine
learning and blockchain in pregnant women healthcare environments and articulates
endorsements to promote future research and also guarantee the pregnant women’s data
privacy is preserved. The study further seeks to unveil the potential benefits of integrating
the four medical digital technologies into a single maternal healthcare application to reap
their singular benefits. The study will apply an exploratory research design to review the
existing literature on the destructive technologies and the results will be used to develop a
conceptual framework that would be used to guide future research in maternal healthcare.