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We got moved through several sections of the emergency area where evaluations were done multiple
occasions, and other areas where I was not certain why we were there at all. It turns out her husband
had been looking for us for nearly one hour and did not find us till she had been discharged home for
bed rest.
Working the ER has to be a remarkably challenging job but as an engineer, I could not help viewing
opportunities to improve efficiency for patients and staff. Fortunately, as the internet of things is
beginning to go into medical applications, I think we'll see some amazing improvements and avoid
security breaches along the way.
Like most IoT applications, monitoring and alarms are the largest use-cases for medical IoT. A huge
number of health sensors already exist and are being integrated into IoT platforms to track patients
vitals.While we were waiting in the hospital, my friend had an ECG monitor hooked up to her, it gave a
continuous readout on her pulse and saturated oxygen but apparently had no internal memory. Each
physician or nurse we saw put notes down at a hard copy file that went throughout the ER. Anything
that occurred while we weren't actively being viewed was effectively dropped.
Now, new solutions like smaller boards with adaptive plank shapes are being developed that would have
monitored her stats provided that she was connected, while constantly uploading them for her digital
file. Once the data is already being processed, it's easy for any values that are out of a “normal" or
healthy selection to be flagged and reviewed by the next nurse instead of manually taking a pulse.
Those events that are outside of a medically healthy range can also activate alarms. I would have
appreciated that, instead of asking frantically in the hallway for help when my friend had her heart rate
suddenly spike. The track beeped alarmingly at us no one else in the hospital had any thought that
something scary was occurring in our little-curtained partition.
Whether it's through rigid-flex technology allowing for circuit boards to socialize and be put in more
adaptive and unique monitoring technologies, or stronger transmission capacities enabling machine-to-
machine communication, the IoT is still here. There are many opportunities to assist patients before and
then they're actually in the clinic, and possibly keep them from needing a hospital visit altogether.
Patients can use IoT for over monitoring their conditions, but to help them manage their health more
efficiently. While apps already exist that can help patients recall or program appointments, the day to
day parts of their healthcare may also be enhanced with IoT solutions. You will find pillboxes that can
remind you to take your medicine, and alert someone if you forget. At home physical therapy can be
tracked, and users can acquire real time responses.
Medical IoT products are one way you as an engineer can assist patients get better, and also make the
lives of nurses and physicians simpler, too.All of these are possibilities achievable through big data in a protocol such as Dxchain.While we've been making so much progress in diagnosing industrial difficulties, medical investigation
suffers from an integral hurdle. Even with all of today's technology, the information doctors gather on a
patients symptoms has been extremely restricted. While modern medicine has included X-rays, MRIs,
ultrasounds and other diagnostic tools to the arsenal, one big restriction has remained unchanged since
the very first medical diagnosis textbook -- the Edwin Smith papyrus was written thousands years ago
based on Encyclopedia Britannica, an investigation can only occur when the patient and physician are
together and if symptoms are present. Whoever has taken a car to a mechanic due to an odd noise only
to hear the mechanic say, “Sorry, it didn't make the sound when I drove it" knows this is not the best
way to diagnose and solve a problem?
This millennia-old challenge to medication is finally being addressed through the internet of things. IoT is
fundamentally about creating digital information in the physical world and utilizing that information to
do new things. In medicine, what this means is that physicians can observe how their patients are doing
not just when they are in the physicins office, however when they're at home, at work, exercising or
performing some of their routine daily activities. This may be incredibly important for more accurate
diagnosis or much more timely treatment. For example, many cancer patients need careful observation
of their weight to ensure they stay healthy during chemotherapy. If sensors worn by the patient could
measure their nutrition in real-time, doctors could observe issues and adjust treatment programs before
problems even develop. In reality, even the industrial notion of the digital twin is being used in medicine
to model the performance of individual patients hearts to make customized treatment plans.
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