IoT Brought Healthcare Sector To The Whole New Level

Ash Vyas

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• Publié par: haroldvance
• Publié le: 29 novembre 2016
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IoT Brought Healthcare Sector To The Whole New Level

Internet of Things (IOT) is the latest buzz these days. It refers to a network of physical objects such as devices, buildings, vehicles and other items which are embedded with software, electronics, sensors, network connectivity, etc. in order to exchange the data. Everything you see around in the surroundings is allowed to communicate with one another without any interference from the humans.

IOT is helpful to our day to day life as well as an array of different industries from which, the healthcare industry is the one. It has given a new edge to the medical and healthcare sector. Let's have a look at howIOT servicescan transform the entire sector:

Patient monitoring becomes easy.

In the healthcare industry, patient's health monitoring has always been so crucial as it should be continuously monitored. And if practically thought, it's not always possible to keep an individual with a patient in day to day life. To solve this, a massive range of wearable fitness gadgets are available today in the market which are IoT devices. Such devices are capable of monitoring a wide range of health related activities of the patients. These activities include heartbeats, blood pressure, physical strength of the body, footsteps, quality of your sleep and much more. In this way, patient monitoring becomes very easy.

Medical data recording is no more a hassle! Often it is noticed that when the patients stay in the hospitals, they are hooked with a number of medical equipment and devices such as heart rate monitors, blood pumps, respirators, etc. Sometimes it becomes a mess of the various tubes and device cables. In such cases, manual recording of patient's data is quite difficult and time consuming for the nurses. In addition, there remain certain chances of errors in the captured data. With IoT services, EHR (Electric Health Record) systems are developed which help the nurses to automatically transmit the data of every patient linked with the system. This facility saves the time of nurses and enhances the accuracy of the readings.

Constant watch of a patient can be kept from anywhere. As far as the healthcare industry is concerned, audio and video calls have become a very essential part of the sector because they bridge the communication gap between patients and the doctors, located at anywhere across the globe. Internet of Things has given birth to various technologies which have improved and updated useful features in these audio and video calls. The healthcare experts can interact virtually with the patients from anywhere at any time. For example, a healthcare station can be placed around retail locations such as a drug store which can behave like a virtual doctor's consultation centre. Each booth can be equipped with some special sensors which measure different parameters of a patient, including blood pressure, temperature, weight, viral symptoms, etc. If possible, they can have video cameras too, for remote communication between the healthcare experts and the patients.

Internet of Things has given a number of technology advancements due to which the medical and healthcare industry is now at an entire different level!

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