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Take a microscopic safari, to meet the creatures that live, compete, feed, and breed on the surface or in the depths of our bodies......

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The documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken health-care system to demonstrate music's ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. Rossato-Bennett visits family members who have witnessed the miraculous effects of personalized music on their loved ones and offers illuminating interviews with experts including renowned neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks (Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain) and musician Bobby McFerrin ("Don't Worry, Be Happy").....

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For thousands of years, humanity has been using the cannabis plant to treat various medical conditions. The ancient Chinese, Egyptian and Greek people's all recognized the immense medical potential of this often-misunderstood plant. Thousands of years later, in the most technologically advanced age of human history, medical marijuana is a controversial topic. The early 20th century saw vilification and prohibition of marijuana - a movement born out of greed, lies, and even racism. Only now are scientists beginning to confirm what the ancients knew - that cannabis is one of the most medically applicable plants Mother Nature has to offer. Medical marijuana has the potential to treat a wide range of psychological and physiological conditions - from cancer to PTSD. From CBD oils to all-new wonder drugs, this is truly an exciting time for medicine. Nevertheless, the illegality of marijuana, and the war on drugs, has stifled research. It is time to dispel the lies and address the facts. ...

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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/
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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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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 4)

APPLICATION OF IoT IN HEALTHCARE:

SMART-WATCH:

• Wearable IoT devices such as smartwatches are the most conspicuous application of internet of things (IoT) technology. The passive use of a wearable device can monitor vital signs and even can save lives. Using the wearable device the health issues can be detected such as irregular heartbeat etc.

• Wearables represent a new frontier in healthcare, as they can provide emergency care to the elderly, monitor baby cribs, gather continuous electronic health records to allow more patient-centred healthcare, enable hyper-accurate and extensive clinical trials that collect and correlate data across yet unrealized data points.

• The continuous monitoring of the user’s vitals wearables devices can provide allow people and medical professionals to notice irregularities etc.

• Recently tech-giant Apple started working on their smartwatch to detect depression levels. Every year lots of people take treatment for depression. This device track and suggest what to do in case of depression. This is an innovative example of artificial intelligence which helps to give prediction levels of the users. The internet of things in healthcare will help to cure the mental health of working-class people very effectively.

INSULIN PENS AND SMART CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING:

CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING 

 

INSULIN PEN

• Smart Insulin pens are intelligent, convenient, reusable. It’s your personal diabetes companion that keeps track of your dose data. By using a mobile app called Inkpen keeps track of your data and helps you make decisions. It automatically records insulin doses, tracks active insulin, recommends mealtime and correction doses, shares therapy data with your doctor etc.

• People with diabetes use insulin pen to inject insulin, a vital hormone for people who have diabetes, they contain a cartridge, a dial to measure dosage and disposable needle.

• Insulin pens are nowadays used by many people because it is more simple, convenient delivery than using a vial and syringe.

• There are mainly two types of insulin pen they are:

1. Disposable Pen: this contains a prefilled insulin cartridge. Once used, the entire pen unit is thrown away.
2. Reusable Pen: this contains a replaceable insulin cartridge. Once empty, a person discards the cartridge and installs a new one.

SMART VIDEO PILLS:

A small pill can travel through a patient’s intestinal tract and take pictures as it travels. It can then send the collected information to the wearable device, which in turn would send it to a dedicated smartphone app. Small pills can also help to visualize the gastrointestinal tract and colon remotely.

• The tiny pills have a drug and an ingestible sensor. The sensor gets activated when it comes to contact with stomach fluid to detect when the pill has been taken.

• The data is then transmitted to a wearable patch that eventually conveys the information to a paired smartphone app.

• Doctors and caregivers, with patient consent, can access the data via the web portal.

HEARABLES & HEARING AIDS:

HEARABLES:

• Technologies or group of technologies that work in combination with each other to enhance an individual’s hearing ability is known as hearable.

• Hearables have the potential to be used in the management of hearing loss.

• Hearables can provide access to other assistive listening devices and audio devices and audio devices such as smartphones, TV’s, computers and FM loops.

• Hearables are likely to expand the range of technology types that now can be used to manage hearing loss.

• Hearables are new-age hearing aids which have completely transformed the way people who suffered hearing loss interact with the world.

HEARING AIDS:

• A hearing aid is an electronic, battery-operated device that amplifies and changes sound to allow for improved communication.

• User’s will able to connect and monitor their hearing aids, so they can stream sound from their android devices without additional hardware.

INGESTIBLE SENSORS:

• Ingestible sensors are the ingestible electronic devices, roughly the size of a medicine capsule, composed of biocompatible materials that make up the power supply, microprocessor, controller, sensors etc..

• These pilled size sensors which monitor the medication in our body and warns us if detects any irregularities in our body.

• These ingestible sensors can be a boon for a diabetic patient as it would help in curbing symptoms and provide early warning for the disease. 

• For example proteus digital health.

• It gives the device ability to telecommunicate for use in the healthcare industry for disease diagnostics and monitoring.

• They are non-invasive.

MOODABLES:

• Moodables claim to improve relaxations to helping people with stress disorders and ADD.

• These devices can read the brainwaves and send low-intensity currents to the brain accordingly.

• These techniques can be used on a healthy as well as on an impaired brain, this will help to understand an awful lot about human brain functioning and how mood can be elevated.

• Soon moodables will be human’s best friend in the years to come.

HEALTHCARE CHARTING:

• IoT devices such as 'Audemix' reduce much manual work which a doctor has to do during patient charting.

• It is powered by voice commands and captures the patient’s data.

• It makes the patient’s data readily accessible for review. It saves around doctor’s work by 15 hours per week.

REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING:

• Remote patient monitoring is a method of healthcare delivery that uses the latest advances in information technology to gather patient data outside of traditional healthcare settings.

• It provides the convenience of being treated by expert professionals continuously while being at home, with better accuracy.

• Some examples of data which can be monitored are weight, blood pressure, blood sugar levels, heart rate, electrocardiogram and blood oxygen levels.

• It uses varies from monitoring SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) in infants to memory loss in elderly people. It can be greatly useful for a patient with mobility issues, post-surgery patients, elderly patients etc.

HOSPITAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT:

• IoT can be used to create an automated, centralized database management system that can track all the documentation, optimize queues and track hospital staff and patients through their mobile devices.

• Some IoT innovations that are facilitating operations management in hospitals are:- Auto-bed, RIFD.

GLUCOSE MONITORING:

• Testing your blood sugar levels is one of the best ways to understand your diabetes and how different foods, medications, and activities affect your diabetes.

• Keeping track of your blood glucose can help you and your doctor makes a plan to manage this condition.

CONNECTED INHALER:

• The IoT based inhalers are sensors that act as a clip on to existing inhalers.

• It has a GPS extension which allows it to track when and where the puffs are taken by the patients.

• These sensors are linked with an app that the patient needs to install on their smartphone. This information is readily conversed to the app by the sensors via Bluetooth on the smartphone or plug-in hub.

• The connected inhalers enable the physicians to effectively monitor the inhalation technique and frequency capturing factors such as inhalation volume, stimulus time, as well as the patient’s usage of the inhaler.

• Asthma is a condition that impacts hundreds of millions of people globally. Connected inhalers are a form of smart technology that is giving people living with asthma control over their symptoms and treatment.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 3)

CHALLENGES:

DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY:

• One of the most significant challenges faced by the IoT is data security and privacy.

• IoT enabled mobile devices to capture data in real-time, but most of them lack adherence to data protocols and standards.

• There is significant ambiguity regarding data ownership and regulations.

• The data stored within IoT enabled devices are prone to data thefts and it makes the data more susceptible to cybercriminals that hack into the systems to compromise personal health information.

• Some examples of misuse of IoT device data are fraudulent health claims and the creation of fake ID for buying and selling drugs.

MASSIVE INPUTS OF GENERATED DATA:

• Some of the most exciting health care IoT initiatives include ways to reduce emergency room waiting times, track

COST:

• Cost is one of the greater challenges when planning to consider IoT app development for healthcare mobility solutions.

• The costs are completely worth it if the IoT implementation is one that solves a genuine problem.

• While you will spend a significant amount of money and resources in developing IoT applications, the returns will be huge when your business saves time and manpower.

UNDERDEVELOPED INITIATIVES: 

• Many IoT initiatives directed at battling chronic diseases or other issues still need time to grow and develop.

• This technological niche as a whole must grow a lot in order to start providing regular enhancement results.

POSSIBLE LACK OF AVAILABLE MEMORY: 

• IoT sensors and devices can general colossal amount of data, all of which is important and needs to be analyzed.

• This poses questions of huge data repositories that must hold all those volumes of info for indefinite terms.

DIFFICULTIES WITH REGULAR UPDATES:

• With so many hardware solutions comes as much software for powering and managing it all.

• This software must be timely updated in order to run smoothly and stay at its latest version. Where lots of efforts and might spawn many technical issues.

GLOBAL HEALTH CARE REGULATIONS:

• The IoT still has to be approved by global healthcare regulatory bodies worldwide, this will take time and may keep many innovations at bay just because of some formalities.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 2)

BENEFITS OF IOT IN HEALTHCARE:

SIMULTANEOUS REPORTING AND MONITORING:

• IoT is based upon the transfer of data, this can significantly be exploited for the good of the medical sector.

• The medical devices that connected to the patients give an indication for many health parameters such as blood pressure, heart beating rate (ECG), diabetes rate (sugar levels), weight etc...

• Real-time monitoring via connected devices can save lives in the event of the medical emergency like heart attack, heart failure, diabetes, asthma etc. It is a quicker and effective treatment.

• This can be achieved by connecting these devices like mobile phones into the cloud, which provides constant monitoring and supervision over the patient condition.

• All these data’s are collected and stored in the cloud, the data can be accessed by the authorized doctors, physicians or psychologist and hence they take the procedure if needed.

• A study of the center of connected health policy showed that integrating IoT technology into patient monitoring and reporting have greatly reduced 50% of readmission mainly for failure patients.

• The role of IoT in healthcare has made it easy for doctors to attend to multiple patients in a matter of minutes.

END-TO-END CONNECTIVITY AND AFFORDABILITY:

• The IoT in healthcare application can allow a better connection and use of the latest technology to enhance connectivity and data sharing.

• Technologies (i.e) connectivity protocols such as Bluetooth, wi-fi, z-wave and Zigbee. Tracking and identifying illness becomes easy and less time-consuming.

• With this technology, the overall treatment cost and time gets reduced and also allows the patient to be easily treated.

• IoT can automate patient care workflow with the help healthcare mobility solution and other new technologies and next-generation healthcare facilities.

• IoT in healthcare enables interoperability, machine-to-machine communication, information exchange and data movement that makes healthcare service delivery effective.

• This technology-driven setup can bring down the costs by cutting down unnecessary visits and utilizing better quality resources.

DATA ASSORTMENT AND ANALYSIS:

• The use of IoT in healthcare involves storing massive data about a patient’s medical history. There are a vast amount of data a healthcare device sends in a very short time.

• For healthcare professionals, to manage a vast amount of data is not easy as it sounds and also it is hard to store and manage if the access to the cloud is unavailable.

• Data collected in real-time through IoT enabled mobile devices can be analysed and segregated through mobility solution powered by IoT.

• This will reduce the collection of raw data and can drive vital healthcare analysis and data-driven insights, which reduces errors and speed up decision-making and less prone to errors.

• These can be achieved overcloud with the providers (i.e) doctors only getting access to final reports with graphs.

TRACKING AND ALERTS:

• Wearable and smart devices are dominating our lives be allowing us to monitor ourselves and optimize our health data.

• The on-time alert is critical in event of life-threatening circumstances, real-time tracking and alerts in life-threatening situations can turn as a saviour to safeguard a critical patient’s health with constant notifications and real-time alerts for proper monitoring, analysis and diagnosis.

• Healthcare monitoring solutions powered by IoT play a vital role in real-time tracking, altering and monitoring by dropping notifications to people about critical parts via mobile apps and other linked devices. This reports and alters gives a firm opinion about a patient’s conditions irrespective of time and place.

REMOTE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE:

• In the event of an emergency, patients can connect a doctor who is many kilometres away with smart mobile apps.

• With mobility solutions in healthcare, the medics can instantly check the patients and identify the aliments on the go.

• Numerous healthcare delivery chains that are functioning to build machines that can distribute drugs on the basis of the patient’s prescription and aliment-related data available via linked devices.

• IoT will improve the patient’s care in the hospital. This, in turn, will cut on people’s expanse on healthcare.

RESEARCH:

• IoT for healthcare can also be used for research purposes, it’s because IoT enables us to collect a massive amount of data about the patient’s illness which would have taken many years if we collected it manually.

• The data thus collected can be used for the statistical study that would support the medical research.

• IoT doesn’t only save time but also our money which would go in research.

• IoT has a great impact in the field of medical research, which enables the introduction of bigger medical treatments.

• IoT is used in a variety of devices that enhance the quality of the healthcare services received by the patients.

• Even the existing devices are now being updated by IoT by simply using embedding chips of smart devices. The chip enhances the assistance and cares that a patient requires.

TREATMENT OUTCOMES CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED OR MAXIMIZED:

• The data gathered by IoT healthcare devices are highly accurate, enabling informed decisions.

• Health facilities and practitioners will be capable of minimizing errors because all patient information can be measured quickly and sent to a broad of doctors or a healthcare cloud platform.

• AI-driven algorithms running on these IoT devices could also help make intelligible decisions or suggestions based on existing data.

REDUCED COST:

• Using IoT solutions and connected medical devices allows healthcare providers to monitor patients in real-time.

• Which it means fewer unnecessary visits to the doctors, and fewer hospitals stays and readmissions to efficient data collection and management.

BETTER PATIENT EXPERIENCE:

• Being connected to the health care system through the internet of things, patients get more engaged in their treatment and doctors improve diagnosis accuracy since they have all the necessary patient data at hand.

BETTER MANAGEMENT OF DRUGS AND MEDICINE ADHERENCE:

• IoT solutions allow hospital staff to spend less time searching for drugs, track supplies and medicine.

• Healthcare IoT monitoring solutions help patients adhere to their treatment plans and doctors to track compliance with prescriptions.

IMPROVED TREATMENT:

• Healthcare solutions that are connected through cloud computing and use big data, can provide caregivers with the ability to access real-time data which can be used to make informed decisions and to provide evidence-based treatments.

ERROR REDUCTION:

• Using IoT for data collection and workflow automation is an excellent way to cut down on waste, such as unnecessary tests and expensive imaging, reduced system costs and minimize errors etc.

IMPROVED PATIENT EXPERIENCE:

• Better accuracy in diagnosis, proactive treatments, timely physician intervention and improved treatment resulting in high trust among patients.
• The IoT plays a vital role in the healthcare of providing increased patient experience.

FASTER DISEASE DIAGNOSIS:

• Continuous patient monitoring and real-time data help in diagnosing diseases at an early stage or even before the disease develops based on symptoms.

PROACTIVE TREATMENT:

• Continuous health monitoring opens the doors to providing proactive medical treatment.

DRUGS AND EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT:

• Management of drugs and medical equipment is a major challenge in the healthcare industry. Through connected devices, these are managed and utilized efficiently with reduced costs.

eHealth:

• eHealth is referred to as the use of information and communications technologies in healthcare.

REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING/ TELEHEALTH:

• Remote patient monitoring is a method of healthcare delivery that uses the latest advances in information technology to gather patient data outside of traditional healthcare settings.

• Remote patient monitoring uses digital technologies to collect medical and other forms of health data from individuals in one location and electronically transmit that information securely to healthcare providers in different locations for assessment and recommendations.

• Telehealth is the use of digital information and communications technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to access health care services remotely and manage your health care.

• These may be technologies you use from home or that your doctor uses to improve or support healthcare service.

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare. (Part 1)

IoT:

Internet of things (IoT) is referred to the ever-growing network of the physical objects that feature an IP address for internet connectivity and the communication that occurs between the objects and other internet-enabled devices and systems.

• The internet of things is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers.

•  The internet of things has the ability to transfer data over a network requiring human to human or human to computer interaction.

•  Internet of things (IoT) is an ecosystem of connected physical objects that are accessible through the internet.

•  The main scope of IoT is that it can connect devices embedded in various systems to the internet. When devices/objects can represent themselves digitally, they can be controlled from anywhere, the connectivity then helps us capture more data from one places, ensuring more ways of increasing efficiency.

•  Internet of things also referred to as machine to machine (M2M), Skynet or internet of everything.

•  A thing in the internet of things can be a person with a heart monitor implant, an animal with a biochip transponder, or any other natural or man-made object that can be assigned an internet protocol (IP) address and it is able to transfer data over a network.

•  IoT enables devices have made remote monitoring.

HOW IoT HELP IN HEALTHCARE?

IoT IS undoubtedly transforming the healthcare industry by redefining the space of devices and people interaction in delivering healthcare solutions. IoT has applications in healthcare that benefit patients, families, physicians, hospitals and insurance companies.

IoT FOR PATIENTS:

• Wearables like fitness bands and other wirelessly connected devices like blood pressure and heart rate monitoring cuffs, glucometer etc.
•  IoT has changed people’s lives, especially elderly patients, by enabling constant tracking of health conditions.
•  This has a major impact on people living alone and their families.
•  On any disturbance or changes in the routine activities of a person, alert mechanisms send signals to family members and concerned health providers.

IoT FOR PHYSICIANS:

• By having a piece of monitoring equipment embedded with IoT, physicians can keep track of patients’ health more effectively.
• They can track patients adherence to treatments plans or any need for immediate medical attention.
• IoT enables healthcare professionals to be more watchful and connect with the patients proactively.
• Data collected from IoT devices can help physicians identify the best treatment process for patients and reach the expected outcomes.

IoT FOR HOSPITALS: 

• Apart from the monitoring patient’s health, there are many other areas where IoT devices are useful in hospitals.
•  IoT devices tagged with sensors are used for tracking the real-time location of medical equipment like wheelchairs, defibrillators, nebulizers, oxygen pumps and other monitoring equipment.
•  IoT enabled hygiene monitoring devices to help in preventing patients from getting infected.
•  IoT devices also help in asset management like pharmacy inventor control, environmental monitoring, humidity and temperature control.

IoT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES:

• Insurance companies can leverage data captured through health monitoring devices for their claims operations.
• This data will enable them to detect fraud claims.
• IoT devices bring transparency between insurers and customers in the underwriting, pricing, claims to handle, and risk assessment process.
• IoT devices can enable insurance companies to validate claims through the data captured by these devices.

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