How IoT Can Significanlty Improve Healthcare in the Context of Smart City
Figure 1 - Smart City Healthcare (KPIs – Inhibitors – IoT play)
unanticipated costs associated with the
need to increase staff coupled with a loss
in medical workforce productivity 8 .
addressing the key inhibitors and achieving
the key criteria for Smart City health
rankings.
IoT has become extremely valuable o this
industry though the availability of low cost,
small sized sensors, large sets of connectivity
options to choose from and highly matured
cloud services for data management and
processing.
I NTERNET OF T HINGS R EDEFINING
H EALTHCARE I NDUSTRY
IoT has been changing the Healthcare and
Life Science industry outcomes, by
introducing automation into associated
processes (i.e., clinical documentation by
doctors, capturing health data from
wearable/medical equipment), empowering
health care providers (through real time
patient data while the patient is in their
natural habitat – remote ICU) and putting
intelligence into action (predicting medical
equipment failure, patient risk events and
practicing precise medicine). Figure 1 below,
illustrates how IoT is playing a role in
U SE C ASES
Following are some key use cases, illustrated
through real world deployment experiences
and market ecosystem innovative activities.
1. Remote Patient Monitoring
Remotely monitoring patient health
significantly cuts down on hospital stays and
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