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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 7)

ADVANTAGES OF IoT IN HEALTHCARE:

• REMOTE MONITORING: Real-time remote monitoring via connected IoT devices and smart alerts can diagnose illnesses, treat disease and save lives in case of a medical emergency.

• PREVENTION: Smart sensors analyse health conditions, lifestyle choices and the environment and recommend preventative measures, which will reduce the occurrence of diseases and acute states.

• REDUCTION OF HEALTHCARE COSTS: IoT reduces costly visits to doctors and hospital admissions and makes testing more affordable. Efficient autonomous systems will cost less to manage. Things are even better when it comes to patient cost savings due to fewer hospitals journeys as we as fast accelerated diagnostics and treatment.

• MEDICAL DATA ACCESSIBILITY:
  
• Accessibility of electronic medical records allow patients to receive quality care and help healthcare providers make the right medical decisions and prevent complications.

• ACCESSIBILITY: Doctors can view all the necessary data on command and check real-time patient conditions without leaving their office.

• IMPROVED TREATMENT MANAGEMENT: IoT devices help track the administration of drugs and the response to the treatment and reduce medical error.

• IMPROVED HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT: Using IoT devices, healthcare authorities can get valuable information about equipment and staff effectiveness and use it to suggest innovations.

• RESEARCH: Since IoT devices are able to collect and analyse a massive amount of data, they have a high potential for medical research purposes. 

• TECHNOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT: Rendering hospital visits unnecessary, passively accumulating and deeply analyzing important health data, etc...

DISADVANTAGES OF IoT IN HEALTHCARE:

• PRIVACY CAN BE POTENTIALLY UNDERMINED: Lots of attention will need to be focused on data security, which requires significant additional spendings.

• UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO CENTRALIZATION: There is a chance that dishonest interlopers may access centralized systems and realize some cruel intentions.

• GLOBAL HEALTHCARE REGULATIONS: International health administrations are already issuing guidelines that must be strictly followed by governmental medical establishments integrating the IoT in their workflow. These may restrict possible capacities to some extent.

WHY INTERNET OF MEDICAL THINGS IS THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE?

Healthcare has the most potential use of IoT than any other sectors. The combination of IoT and healthcare will have immense benefits like health condition monitoring, self-care, discovering new methods for disease prevention and control examinations and diagnosis. 

IoT can make healthcare cheaper and efficient in the future. It can help in the creation of more customized and patient-oriented equipment. Moreover, IoT will also enable patients to get better access to data, personalized care, thus leading to fewer visits to hospitals.

FUTURE OF IoT IN HEALTHCARE:

• Full-blown smart hospitals by 2020, health as a regular common thing on a global scale and reduced physical visits to hospitals this only an approximate picture of the IoT success.

• With that being said, as young as the concept is, it isn’t really regarded to be that novel by progressive hospitals of the now.

• Most of them are either implementing major IoT techniques and capabilities or already have enhanced parts that are in their calibration stage.

• It is estimated that the install base of IoT devices in healthcare will be more than 161 million units by the end of 2020.

• According to some independent predictions, almost 90 per cent of healthcare establishments and organization worldwide will be employing the IoT as a regular in-house tool by the end of 2019.

• So now IoT in healthcare is pretty vivid, with its future looking even brighter.

REFERENCE:

1. https://www.wipro.com/en-IN/business-process/what-can-iot-do-for-healthcare-/
2. https://www.i-scoop.eu/internet-of-things-guide/internet-things-healthcare/
3. https://www.peerbits.com/blog/internet-of-things-healthcare-applications-benefits-and-challenges.html
4. https://www.ns-healthcare.com/analysis/iot-in-healthcare/
5. https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/comment/bringing-internet-things-healthcare/
6. https://www.finoit.com/blog/the-role-of-iot-in-healthcare-space/
7. https://www.news-medical.net/health/Monitoring-Asthma.aspx#:~:text=Based%20on%20the%20severity%20of,over%20a%20period%20of%20time.
8. https://news.careinnovations.com/blog/what-is-telehealth-what-is-remote-patient-monitoring-how-are-they-different

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 6)

HEART RATE MONITORING:

• A heart rate monitor is a personnel monitoring device that allows one to measure/display heart rate in real-time or record the heart rate for later study, it is largely used to gather heart rate data while performing various types of physical exercise.

NURSE ASSISTANT ROBOT:

• Today, robotic nurses are robots that help patients physically move around or perform simple tasks like taking vital signs or delivering medicine.

• Some robotic nurses serve as interfaces for doctors to use over distances to communicate with patients.

• If the professional practice of nursing is much like a prescription of tasks and expectations of cause and effect relationships, with all technological and computer-based advances available today, robots can be programmed and will replace human nurses.

MOBILE HEALTH:

• m-health is a general term for the use of mobile phones and other wireless technology in medical care.

• The most common application of m-health is the use of mobile devices to educate consumers about preventive healthcare services.

• m-health is also used for disease surveillance, treatment support, epidemic outbreak tracking and chronic disease management.

• m-health is becoming a popular option in underserved areas where there are a large population and widespread mobile phone use.

SMART HOSPITALS:

• It is the place where technology and design converge to enhance patient care, the fundamental tenet of being ‘smart’ hospitals is that it has to cover four essentials dimensions. Smart hospitals have to be patient experience focused, employee-focused, an organization focused, innovation-focused etc...

ENHANCED CHRONIC DISEASE TREATMENT:

• Conditions such as asthma and diabetes require regular monitoring to prevent the disorders from progressing the life-threatening levels. Chronic disease management, therefore, is essential to both improving health outcomes of poor individuals and containing costs in the united states healthcare system.

CLOSED-LOOP INSULIN DELIVERY:

• A closed-loop insulin delivery system is essentially an artificial pancreas. At present CPM-insulin pump systems are not closed-loop because the persons have to make the decisions of how much insulin to give rather than this happening automatically.

SMART CLINICS:

• Many people go to a general practitioner practice or clinic for primary care services. These service providers can also benefit from using IoT applications.

• For examples, a GP can view and analyse virtually the patient’s pathology report, which saves time for both parties.

• Importantly, patients will get more time for care-related discussions than information gathering. Clinics can verify insurance coverage for patients in real-time.

• Appointment management in clinics practices is a global challenge.

SMART NON-CLINICAL PATIENT ENVIRONMENTS:

• Two potential application areas of IoT could be connected to the patient and the smart home. The smart home would offer healthcare services to patients anytime and anywhere.

• Remote monitoring of prescribed intervention, such as physiotherapy can be done through a connected patient application. Also, patients can get personalized services, such as reminders to take medication.

• Offering monitoring and healthcare services to elderly people is a great challenge worldwide.

• Smart home solutions can improve existing services an offer new services for those highly vulnerable people through fall detection, medication reminders, telemedicine and generally associated living.

ROBOTS:

• IoT sensors in the near-future may determine when patients are in distress and send robotic nurses to deliver the medication or enable them to have a face-to-face video chat with a medical professional who is otherwise unable to reach the patient.

AR, VR AND MR:

AUGMENTED REALITY:

• Augmented reality add reality objects to your natural environment, and view through mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. Manipulate objects with real-time movement. Overlay content on top of people’s everyday settings.

VIRTUAL REALITY:

• Be fully engaged in 3D computer-simulated reality, with custom-built VR software. Apply virtual reality to health sectors, use virtual reality to take an eye exam.

MIXED REALITY:

• Mixed reality is a hybrid environment where 3D computer-generated objects coexist with reality. We are mixed reality developers who build programs for prototyping, design, gaming and more.

MONITORING ASTHMA:

• Asthma management uses IoT enabled devices like smart inhalers to monitor the rate and environmental factors around asthma attacks to better inform users as to how their asthma is being managed, decrease non-adherence to treatment and help users discover the cause of their asthma attacks.

• Asthma management devices like smart inhalers help asthma sufferers monitor the rate and environmental conditions surrounding their asthma attacks and remind them to take their medications.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 5)

INTEROPERABILITY:

• Interoperability is the ability of different information system, devices and applications to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner within across and regional and national boundaries, to provide timely and seamless portability of information.

• Health data exchange, applications interfaces and standards enable data to be accessed and shared appropriately and securely across the complete spectrum of care etc.

CONNECTED CONTACT LENS:

• The vision-based technology, connected or smart contact lenses are an obvious way to explore virtual and augmented reality, and camera technologies.

• Smart lenses are being developed that aim to treat iron-sightedness caused by a loss of elasticity in the lens of the eye known as presbyopia and cataract surgery recovery.

• Swiss company sentiment has developed a non-invasive contact lens called triggerfish, which records the changes in eye dimensions that can lead to glaucoma.

• Sony has applied for the patent for a smart contact lens which can convert eye movement into electrical power, which your control through blinking your eyes.

BLOOD COAGULATION TESTING:

• Roche launched a Bluetooth-enabled coagulation system. The IoT device allows patients to check how quickly their blood clots.

• Roche’s system is the first IoT device explicitly designed especially for anticoagulated patients.

• The system which provides for self-testing was shown to help patients remain within their therapeutic range and lowered their risk of bleeding and stroke.

• The ability of wirelessly transfer results to their healthcare professional meant fewer visits to the medical clinic.

SMART-WATCH APP FOR DEPRESSION:

• Major depressive disorder can be tracked by a smartwatch app used daily by patients to monitor their moods and thoughts.

• There is definite potential for wearable technology to do more than count steps, in this case, it cloud be used to assess the effects of depression in real-time.

• Like the IoT healthcare devices, a depression app could give patients and healthcare providers more insight into the conditions.

CONNECTED CANCER TREATMENT:

• In 2018, data was presented at the American society of clinical oncology annual meeting from a clinical trial of patients all receiving treatment for head and neck cancer.

• The treatments had patients use Bluetooth enabled weight scale and blood pressure cuff, along with a symptoms-tracking app, to send daily updates to patient’s doctors on symptoms and responses to treatment.

• The doctors' cloud adjusts treatment day-to-day based on the data. The patients involved in the trials experienced less severe symptoms related to cancer and the treatment, then those in a control group maintained weekly doctor visits.

ROBOTIC SURGERY:

• Robotic surgery, or robotic-assisted surgery, allows doctors to perform many types of complex procedures with more precisions, flexibility and control than is possible with conventional techniques.

• Robotic surgery is usually associated with minimally invasive surgical procedures are performed through tiny incisions. 

HAND HYGIENE MONITORING:

• Research-based on a voice-based electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems showed a 61.4 per cent decrease in healthcare-acquired infections.

• The system includes an audible reminder in the form of a human voice that reminds healthcare facility staff to sanitize their hands.

EFFICIENT DRUG MANAGEMENT:

• The effectiveness of drug treatment is based on its efficacy, tolerability, safety, and acceptability.

• Effective medication management implies that the process of selecting and managing prescribed drugs results in an optimal patient outcome.

• Effectively prescribing medications includes gaining mastery of drug knowledge, learning the nuts and bolts of treatment using the medication, and psychoeducational process in medication management.

• Nurses have the essential role in providing effective medications management, given their direct level of patient contact and their collaborative relationship with physicians.

GPS SMART SOLE:

• This is the new wandering, a tracking device is similar to an orthotic that slides into any size shoes

• It contains a tiny GPS tracking element centred into the pad.

• It runs on a rechargeable battery that lasts 2-3 days. The pads last up to 30 months depending on normal wear and use.

MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT:

• Medical waste management is waste generated from hospitals at various wards. There are different kinds of biomedical waste such as anatomical waste, cytotoxic drugs waste, chemical waste, etc..

• This waste must be transported from hospitals to the common treatment facility where these wastes are recycled using treatment equipment to avoid pollution.

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