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The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has generated immense possibilities in the healthcare domain. IoT has the potential to transform the healthcare sector by changing its current focus from curative approach to ensuring complete wellness of an individual. However, this domain is still in infancy, and a number of aspects must be examined before its full potential can be realized. In order to assist the researchers, this chapter provides a 360-degree view of IoT around the healthcare domain. The chapter also presents a distant view as well as in-depth study of the five-layered IoT architecture with reference to the healthcare domain; compares a number of communication protocols for IoT-based applications on the basis of their data rate, range coverage, energy requirements, cost, and other notable parameters; discusses the role of cloud as well as fog for processing a large amount of data collected through …