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Advanced Healthcare Systems
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Advanced Healthcare Systems

by Rohit Tanwar, S. Balamurugan, Rakesh Kumar Saini, Vishal Bharti, Premkumar Chithaluru
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 53m
English
Wiley-Scrivener
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1Internet of Medical Things—State-of-the-Art

Kishor Joshi1 and Ruchi Mehrotra2*

1Mahavir Heart Hospital, Patna, India

2University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

Abstract

Technological innovations have helped in early diagnosis and disease management, thereby preventing long-term complications of various diseases which contribute to morbidity and mortality. Internet of Things used in the healthcare industry and is the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The chapter compiles seminal research about IoMT. The paper elaborates the growth of the IoMT market in the last decade from in-hospital and clinics and having reached to home segment as well. With every second, 127 IoT devices adding in the market, and by 2021, it is expected that 35 billion devices will be connected to web, and by 2026, this market will touch almost one trillion US dollars. There are virtual clinics and telehealth for remote monitoring of patients both in rural areas and even where immediate access to clinicians by severely sick patients is always needed like cardiac and obstetric care. There is personal emergency response system (PERS) becoming highly popular in case of chronic critical diseases and is life-saving. The paper covers latest technological advancements for the on-body segment like the consumer health wearables. The traditional approach in healthcare being more personalized and touch-based system is not replaceable for diagnosis. The old-age, chronically ill patients need remote monitoring ...

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