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The Internet of Things for Health Care:
A Comprehensive Survey

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Remote Monitoring

Remote health monitoring is an important application of Internet Of Things. Through monitoring, you can give adequate healthcare to people who are in dire need of help. Every day, lots of people die because they do not get timely and prompt medical attention. With IoT, devices fitted with sensors notify the concerned healthcare providers when there is any change in the vital functions of a person.

These devices would be capable of applying complex algorithms and analyzing them so the patient receives proper attention and medical care. The collected patient information would be stored in cloud. Through remote monitoring, patients can significantly reduce the length of hospital stay and perhaps, even hospital re-admission. This kind of intervention is a boon to people living alone, especially seniors. If there is any interruption in the daily activity of a person, alerts would be sent to family members and concerned health providers. These monitoring devices are available in the form of “wearables” too.

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Tighten Budgets and Improve Patient Journey

The healthcare industry has to keep a watchful eye on the budget and at the same time have updated infrastructure to provide better patient experiences. Thanks to the seamless connection between devices that IoT has made possible, it is now possible for the medical staff to access patient information from the cloud as long as they are stored in there.

The goal is to provide quality medical care to patients, and by spending a small amount on IT infrastructure, hospitals can provide good care to patients at affordable rates. IoT aims to provide better patient journey by:

Room lighting through personal control

Communicate to family and friends through email services

Immediate attention to patient needs

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IoT as a Healthcare Industry Disruptor

Based on research conducted by Accenture Consulting and published earlier this year, 73% of healthcare executives think IoT will be “disruptive” within three years. In keeping with a broader theme impacting enterprise IoT adoption, the research further finds that only 49% of healthcare executives say “their leaders completely understand what” the IoT means for the industry.

Despite an apparent hesitancy, digital research firm eMarketer projects an $163 billion value for IoT-related healthcare by 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate of more than 38% from a 2015 baseline.

An executive summary in the research report outlines a number of key use cases:

Internet-enabled devices and sensors seamlessly collect and analyze real-time health and fitness data.

Connect entire networks of medical devices.

Locate healthcare-related assets.

Streamline patient care and medical research.

It’s already tracking:

Pharmaceutical inventory

Helping elderly patients stay safe in their homes

Powering prescription bottles that remind people when to take their medications

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Internet of Things Enabled Healthcare

Healthcare is a highly valuable albeit highly contentious industry. Soaring costs, complex insurance regulations used at times as much for political leverage as for ensuring patient care, overworked doctors and nurses, and ongoing public health issues all influence the way patients interact with medical professionals and other caregivers.

To some extent all of these problems, along with many others that plague healthcare service delivery, could be streamlined, and outcomes improved, through better access to real-time information, innovative monitoring techniques and predictive diagnostics–all solutions the Internet of Things can enable.

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Hand Hygiene Compliance

There are hand hygiene monitoring systems that would detect the degree of cleanliness in a healthcare worker. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, about one patient out of every 20 gets infections from lack of proper hand hygiene in hospitals. Numerous patients lose their lives as result of hospital acquired infections.

The interactions in the hand hygiene monitoring systems are done in real time and if a clinician comes near a patient’s bed without washing his hands, the device would start buzzing. And that's not all. The information about the healthcare worker, his ID, time and location will all be fed into a database and this information would be forwarded to the concerned authorities.

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IoT services and Applications: 17030241009

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IoT services and Applications: 17030241009

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The major application of IoT in health care is the e tracking health care management system for persons who are elderly or independent of family members....sensors and GPS used in the interface application along with database connectivity to reflect the information of the patients instantly is of great help

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17030241009: IoT applications in wheel chair mana

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17030241009: IoT applications in wheel chair mana

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There can't be anything better than wheel chair management for the disabled people....used the peer to peer technology over the network to know the status of the disabled persons and their surroundings ....easy to reach to them once they are in problem or in need...Intel was one of the company to provide with the solutions....Great work Intel...Great work IoT.

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Another important application of IoT is:
Remote medical assistance

In event of an emergency, patients can contact a doctor who is many kilometers away with a smart mobile apps. With mobility solutions in healthcare, the medics can instantly check the patients and identify the ailments on-the-go.

Also, numerous healthcare delivery chains that are forecasting to build machines that can distribute drugs on the basis of patient’s prescription and ailment-related data available via linked devices.

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

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health care IoT Application and services

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One of the IoT application in health care -
Pharma is following, though, and developing its own connected systems to help diabetes sufferers. In 2016, Roche acquired distribution rights to an implantable long-term continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system which uses a 90 day sensor below the patient’s skin.
The sensor communicates with a smart transmitter which then sends blood glucose levels to a sister mobile app on the patient’s phone.

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Let’s talk about IoT used as a Real Time Location Service

Through IoT, doctors can use real time location services and track the devices used for treating patients. Medical staff may sometimes keep the devices in out-of-sight areas which makes them difficult to find when another medical staff comes on the scene.

Medical apparatus and devices like wheelchairs, scales, defibrillators, nebulizers, pumps or monitoring equipment can be tagged with sensors and located easily with IoT. Apart from real time location services, there are IoT devices that help in environmental monitoring as well.

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The number of patients under remote monitoring using interconnected devices jumped by 44% to 7.1 million in 2016, according to research firm Berg Insight. Berg predicts that by 2021 there will be 50.2 million people remotely monitored using connected healthcare devices — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48%.

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Across a range of use cases, there is a number of benefits to using IoT in healthcare, such as:

Higher patient engagement. The IoT makes it easier for patients to play an active role in their healthcare journey. Not only are the devices evolving to better meet the needs of remote monitoring (smaller form factors, lighter weight, etc.), but the way patients access data is changing as well. Patients can now use apps and software to access their own health data and see their progress and the impact of the healthcare program on their well-being.

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Real-time monitoring via connected devices can save lives in event of a medical emergency like heart failure, diabetes, asthma attacks. In event of an emergency, patients can contact a doctor who is many kilometers away with a smart mobile apps. IoT changes the way the facilities are delivered to the healthcare industry. These technologies improve the product, causing a larger effect by bringing together minor changes

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The Internet can be described as an infrastructure that has evolved from being a technology for connecting people and places to a technology connecting things. Services are used to develop applications whereas applications are used by users.
There are an exceptional number of applications that can make use of the Internet of Things. The number of applications is endless. For each application, a particular IoT service can be applied in order to optimize application development and speed up application implementation.

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Healthcare is still an expensive service for the consumer in the developing regions.Healthcare providers lagged behind other industries in adopting IoT innovations and are at the nascent stage of leveraging this technology. IoT bridges interoperability issues and acts as an encouraging factor in delivering better results and offering reasonable solution to everyone.

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IoT has seen proliferation due to growth in analytics and cloud computing, increasing interconnectivity of personal smart devices and machines. IoT and connected devices allows consumer to generate, evaluate, and communicate intelligence data.

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Taking care of the aging member in a family is a matter of great concern. With this, comes another application of IoT: Monitor an aging family member -Ultrasound-based technology already used in hospitals can be deployed as a personalized home healthcare solution to locate and track a senior resident’s activity and detect falls. Emergency calls are managed by a battery operated cost effective system which is easy to install and requires only a wide area communication interface. It can be a small waterproof sensor system, worn like a wristwatch. At regular intervals of 15 to 20 seconds, the system is programmed to send a positioning signal to the ultrasound receiver. Continuous analysis of the data is done by the gateway. Relevant data is broadcast, and the built-in wireless wide area network connection is used to send out a notification for help as soon as any critical event is detected.

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One of the important application of IoT  in Healthcare is:
End-to-end connectivity and affordability

IoT can automate patient care workflow with the health care and mobility solutions and other new technologies, and next-gen healthcare facilities. IoT enables interoperability, machine-to-machine communication, information exchange, and data movement that makes healthcare service delivery effective.
Connectivity protocols: Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, Z-wave, ZigBee, and other modern protocols, healthcare personnel can change the way they spot illness and ailments in patients and can also innovate revolutionary ways of treatment.
Consequently, technology-driven setup brings down the cost, by cutting down unnecessary visits, utilizing better quality resources, and improving the allocation and planning.

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Iot helps in chronic disease detection,early diagnostics ( blockages can be monitored well before time), helpful in emergency situations
(accidents), real time monitoring(daily routine activities), sports and fitness,etc. So it has varied applications all around the  corner.