Masoumeh Danesh Shakib - Department of industrial management, college of management and accounting, Qazvin branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin۳۴۱۸۵-۱۴۱۶, Iran;
Mahsa Pishdar - Department of Industrial and Technology Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, College of Farabi, University ofTehran, Qom ۱۷۴۶۹-۳۷۱۸۱, Iran;

Consumers’ expectations about high performance, high volume, and lower price have been increased all without acompromise on quality, pushing them to put efforts in new technologies applications such as Internet of Things (IOT).Albeit, different challenges show off through this application and this is the point that most of the previous studies paidless attention to while just paying attention to the advantages of these technologies. To overcome this defect, a multipleattribute decision making (MADM) model is developed to rank the challenges of IOT in healthcare environment, usingintuitionistic fuzzy step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis (SWARA) to weight the challenges. Based on this,intuitionistic fuzzy complex proportional assessment of alternatives (COPRAS) is proposed to rank and select thechallenges that should receive the first priority of attention. Analysis shows that the scores of challenges are close to eachother and this shows that all the challenges really matters in taking advantages of IOT application in healthcare system.However, Loss of Integrity of data and transformation receives the first rank among the challenges since if it’s dealt withcorrectly; most of the benefits mentioned in the paper are realized. The challenge with the least score relates to big datamanagement, since when all the other challenges are faced properly, the background would be ready to manage big dataand extract efficient information of it.

Internet of things, Intuitionistic Fuzzy SWARA, Intuitionistic Fuzzy COPRAS, Healthcare