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What are the benefits of Internet of Things in Healthcare?

What are the benefits of Internet of Things in Healthcare? | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical objects that can share electronic information when gathered together. They include sensors that have the ability to track information about the human body or industrial machines that transmit the production process data to the nearby sensors.

 

The IoT is all over and is used in smart homes and even retail. It also plays a crucial role in healthcare.

 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing healthcare in different ways, including improving the care patients get, better results from treatments, and reducing the costs of treatments for patients. Patients get to connect better with the healthcare providers, and their performance is also enhanced.

 

The main benefits it has brought about to the healthcare industry include:

 

  • Real-time monitoring of patients remotely, which reduces the costs incurred during readmissions and doctor visits.
  • Errors are much less likely to occur with IoT devices. The data plays an essential role in ensuring effective decision-making, and all the operations in the healthcare industry are functioning smoothly. This helps reduce the overall number of errors.
  • The quality of treatment received is excellent since physicians make decisions from evidence-based information. Hence there’s complete transparency.
  • Equipment and drugs are better managed. It has always been a significant challenge to manage drugs and equipment in healthcare. However, with devices being connected, the drugs and equipment are utilized and managed efficiently, which helps with cost reduction.
  • Diagnosis is much faster and more accurate. A patient can be diagnosed more efficiently due to consistent remote monitoring. Real-time data is collected, and it helps with the diagnosis of a vast number of different diseases. They are diagnosed at an early stage before they worsen or even before the disease develops fully.

 

IoT devices are revolutionizing how healthcare is delivered and monitored. We guess that we still have only seen the tip of the iceberg. In the years to come, the question will not be if we are connected but how we will be connected and protect our privacy: digital tattoos, smartwatches, smart lenses, or smart pills being just some of the possibilities.

 

The Internet of Things and the multitude of connected devices it offers is on a path to disrupt how healthcare is carried out.

 

Discover how by reading the original article at https://digitalhealthcentral.com/2021/05/07/the-benefits-of-internet-of-things-in-healthcare/

 

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Digital health is going to need medical approval and a great UI

Digital health is going to need medical approval and a great UI | healthcare technology | Scoop.it

So far the internet of things hasn’t made much headway into patient care in the medical setting, but consumers are buying wellness devices for a variety of reasons. Will the medical world embrace that data?


The intersection of healthcare and connected devices was thrown into high relief these last few weeks as both Apple and Samsung unveiled ecosystems to take consumer health data and turn it into actionable intelligence.


But this week’s guests at the Weekly podacst at GigaOm are confident that as advanced as consumer-grade consumer grade health devices get, they won’t become something doctors are hot on for years to come — if ever.


In this week’s podcast Stacey Higginbotham discusses medical connected devices and where it may meet the consumer with Rick Valencia from Qualcomm Life. Will doctor’s prescribe our apps or devices? 


Vigisys's curator insight, June 15, 2014 4:22 AM

Un podcast intéressant qui évoque les freins à l'utilisation médicale des objets connectés. On y évoque le besoin de valider les usages avec des études cliniques et d'adapter les interfaces à un usage professionnel. Que du bon sens !

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Microsoft aiming to enable caregivers to communicate and integrate with EHR systems.

Microsoft says care coordination and secure messaging tools are coming to its Teams platform

 

Microsoft is holding its Ignite conference this week, and the company teased a forthcoming care coordination tool that is in early stages of development – as well two secure messaging features it's creating as part of an effort to tailor Teams for specific industries.

 

 

"As an example of how Teams can enable secure workflows for regulated industries, we're delivering a new care coordination solution, now available in private preview, that gives healthcare teams a secure hub for coordinating care across multiple patients," Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, wrote on the company's blog. "It provides for integration with electronic health record systems and enables care providers to communicate about patient care in real-time within Teams' secure platform.”

 

Markezich said Microsoft is also releasing two new secure message capabilities for Teams: one for for image annotation and the other for priority notifications. While the image function is already generally available, the priority notifications feature is scheduled to be available for companies that use the commercial version of Teams by year's end.

 

"These capabilities support HIPAA compliance and enable doctors, nurses, and other clinicians to communicate about patients while avoiding the privacy risks that arise when healthcare professionals use consumer chat apps," Markezich added.

 

Microsoft said the new care coordination tools will integrate with EHR systems so clinicians and caregivers can communicate via the Teams platform. Considering that the average hospital has 16 different EMR vendors across all its affiliated practices, that integration won't be as easy as it might sound.

 

That said, the tech is in "private preview" mode, so it's a bit early to tell what shape it will take by the time it reaches the open market.

 

read the original story at https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/microsoft-says-care-coordination-and-secure-messaging-tools-are-coming-its-teams-platform

 

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Microsoft aiming to enable caregivers to communicate and integrate with EHR systems. - Microsoft says care coordination and secure messaging tools are coming to its Teams platform.

 

The new care coordination tools will integrate with EHR systems so clinicians and caregivers can communicate via the Teams platform.

 

Considering that the average hospital has more than one different EMR vendors, each of which may themselves be competing in the care coordination space, that integration will not be easy if at all possible.

 

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