INTERNET OF THING IN HEALTHCARE

The Internet of Things is state of the art and exploration of various technologies in contemplating and reinforcing subsist health services. In general, IoT has been widely applicable to amalgamate medical resources and serve effective healthcare services to the elderly and patients with chronic illness. It monitors and notifies not only caretaker but bestow caregiver with actual data to identify the critical issue. IoT connected devices track heartbeats, monitor glucose level and other activities including sleeping cycles. It is estimated at around 3 million devices across the IoT linked devices overseeing nonfunctional organs for healthcare decisions.  With the use of these technology-based methods, there is infinite manoeuver which could improve the quality and efficiency of treatment.

Advantages

The health industry is in transitions as it strives oodles challenges- from increasing population to adopted infrastructure and incompatible technologies.  However, healthcare remains the fastest to adopt technologies transformation to revolutionize diagnoses and body treatments. Have a look at the statistics of how IOT impact all the healthcare industry.

•    Nearly 65% of healthcare organization established IOT devices in their areas.

•    64% of healthcare organization use IoT devices to monitor patients’ involuntary functions.

•    74% of healthcare sectors use IOT for monitoring and maintenance.

•    More than 83% suffer from IOT related data breach.

However, when we talk about a data breach, it doesn’t bother much until it hampers the harmony of doctors’ work and patient treatment.  How health care systematically personalize on time healthcare services to everyone and avail by IoT devices, let’s have a look on it-

•    Parallel monitoring and connecting- Real-time monitoring via life-saving devices reduces chances of mortality happen due to heart attack, asthma, diabetes, coma etc. With time to time monitoring of fluctuating heat beat and by means of IoT devices connected to smartphones directly transfer data to Physician. Generating data are stored in a cloud and can be shared with other authorized person.

•    Collecting and analysis medical data- For curing patients, doctors need medical data to interpret best cure procedure. An IOT solution can be used to support patient vital organs and combine medical data to gain insights about patients’ current situation, without dispersing the information. 

•    Inaccessible medical aid- In an emergency, a patient can contact his doctor even if he several miles away from a doctor. Healthcare specialist can track and monitor patients’ health by providing a recommended prescription. It offers facilities to those regions where health facility are inaccessible. Overall IOT propounds better health facilities not restricted to a particular geographical region but globally.

•    Balancing cost- as it serves the fastest connectivity between the patient and his doctor; it reduces workloads of doctor who cannot handle multiple patients at the same time.  It reduces an effective cost and improves the allocation of resources and planning.

Applications of IoT in healthcare-

Well, IOT offers a range of possibility to obtain insights into business operations. The consolidation of IoT devices reduce emergency wait time and track patient, staff, and Physician actions during the course of surgery. There is an infinite range of application which is discussed in the later section-

Allow constant observation

A patient who is hospitalized and whose health status calls for continuous attention supervises through IoT driven monitoring. This type of devices uses sensors for collected adequate data and clouds and gateway to scrutinize and reviewing patients’ progress or rate of diseases. This eliminates the extra time of a doctor’s visit to the patient place. In a nutshell, it provides constant attention and lowers the cost by eliminating the requirement of a physician or doctor to engage with the patient every time.

Trustable

Connectivity of IoT devices to other devices emphasizes the on the spot patient needs. This serves active intervention and treatments to patients in a care that is highly accountable. In such a way it becomes trustworthy for the patients and doctors.

Remote sensing through ingestible sensors 

This is pill-sized sensors that monitor the regularity and medication of the body. If it detects any abnormality in the patient body, it automatically provides an early sign of any newborn diseases. It’s highly recommended to a diabetic patient.

 Hearable and computer vision devices

Hearable is a hearing device that allows equalizing, modulations and addition layered features to the real world whereas computer vision devices aid visually impaired patients to navigate obstacle around them.

Shape emergency alerts

IoT devices allow the health care team to gather millions of data points regarding fitness and involuntary action such as respiration rate, temperature, heartbeat, glycogen level, and perception. This will release even triggered message to concerned doctors to elevate heart attacks, asthma attack, sudden injury etc.

Challenges

As the application of IoT devices successfully touches peak in the healthcare industry, it is indeed to address challenges that could put IoT at risk of failure-

Configuring and gaining insight from the available data at the right time could not achievable for those who don’t know how to access the data and EHS system regulation.

On the other hand, if the data is not protected from the breach, it could occlude the revolutionize process of the health care industry.

Conclusion

Addressing challenges of IoT at the same time could enhance the growth rate of IoT in the health care industry.