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Simplifying Care for a Rewarding Patient Experience

IoT – the current torchbearer of the technological disruptions across industries (from manufacturing to automotive and retail) – has also catalysed phenomenal transformations in the healthcare landscape. From ingestible cameras to remote health monitoring, IoT has opened up a whole new level of healthcare experience, with proactive care and data-enabled decision-making being at the core of most care endeavours.

What makes IoT so relevant in the current era?

Despite making incredible strides towards becoming a technology-enabled field, healthcare is still surrounded by worrisome issues that have emerged as a consequence of the modern lifestyle. This strange contradiction is because the healthcare system was not built centuries earlier with these complications in mind. Hence, the different care necessities and decisions of today were clearly not accounted for. Since most of the current care approaches were created on this skewed foundation, there is a gap between the desired outcome from healthcare and what most technologies have been able to offer to this landscape. IoT and its related technologies, in the current era, are providing valuable inputs in bridging this gap, enabling timely delivery of care and supporting care providers and patients take right decisions at the right place and the right time.

How has the healthcare industry been using the IoT space?

“Astoundingly well”, is the answer! IoT has indeed successfully simplified most aspects of healthcare.

Wellness tracking and early identification of the need for care

Most of the current innovations around IoT in the healthcare space are focused on wellness tracking and preventive care – in terms of both care statistics and care-relevant parameter evaluation. Smart devices and apps (both wearables and non-wearables), along with smarter analytics, have enabled real-time capture of relevant healthcare parameters, transforming them into coherent data insights indicative of a person’s health status. IoT-enabled solutions warn you in case of changes in critical parameters, warning you of any potential disorders so you can take timely actions. The future of healthcare looks bright with IoT and related technological solutions – we could even be looking at a scenario where people visit hospitals only because they are extremely sick and require immediate and intensive care. If not, they can manage their health from home through the convenience of IoT.

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