Internet-of-Things (IoT) has revolutionised the medical and healthcare sector through efficient healthcare applications and services for remote healthcare interface between the patients and medical experts. Still, the IoT based healthcare services are prone to several limitations because of the openness and pre-determined architecture paving way for security threats and attacks. Many studies have analysed these vulnerabilities and established security schemes for authentication, access control and privacy preservation. This paper has conducted a survey of the recent security schemes developed for the IoT healthcare applications with the goal of understanding the various security mechanisms, their features and also their vulnerabilities. The principle mechanisms of these security schemes have been analysedand their limitations are also highlighted. Finally, some suggestions for formulating the future research directions are also providedbased on the open issues and challenges.
Keywords: Internet of Things, Healthcare, Wireless Body Area Networks, Remote health monitoring, Authentication, Encryption, Privacy preservation.
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