The role and prospects of IoT and cloud computing in remote health monitoringThe role and prospects of IoT and cloud computing in remote health monitoring Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2020-04-102019enCloud computing emerges as the key platform for IoT data storage, processing and analytics due to its simplicity, scalability and affordability (i.e. no up-front investment, low operation costs). Remote patient monitoring in particular can benefit from for this technology in many ways: (a) the new solution is acceptable by many user categories and provides invaluable assistance to chronic patients and the elderly, (b) it is expected to increase users autonomy and confidence and enable self-managing of their condition with the help of caregivers remotely, (c) it reduces the need for face-to-face appointments with doctors and days in hospital. This work reviews key challenges for reliable and secure remote health monitoring based on experience and lessons learned from applying the above technology to the problem of real-time data collection using both wide-range and short-rage wireless protocols and health sensors.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/269-27319th International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioengineeringProceedings - 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Petrakis Evripidis Πετρακης Ευριπιδης Σωτηριάδης Στέλιος Sotiriadis Stelios Soultanopoulos Theodoros Σουλτανοπουλος Θεοδωρος Tsiachri-Renta Pelagia Τσιαχρη-Ρεντα Πελαγια Tsakos Konstantinos Τσακος Κωνσταντινος Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Bluetooth Cloud computing Health sensors Internet of things LoRa Remote patient monitoring