Health care assessment and monitoring has taken a huge leap in technology over the past few years. Numerous automated and machine controlled devices have been designed to help the field practitioners monitor the patient’s well-being. Often, elderly people require constant support from their doctors, especially when they require 24x7 monitoring. This proposal contains an overview of the progress made by the Internet of Things-(IOT) in the field of healthcare. IoT technology allows us to gather continuous patient data for cheap. This paperstudiesvarious cases of IOT based healthcare techniques and discusses their features and impacts on healthcare. © 2016 International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences. All rights reserved.