Chapter 2: IoT for healthcare industries: a tale of revolution

Trina Dutta 1 , Subhadeep Pramanik 2 , and Prateeti Kumar 3       1 Department of Chemistry, JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India      2 Analytics Lab, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Mumbai, India      3 Quantitative Trading Department, Edelweiss Financial Services, Mumbai, India

Abstract

In the era where we didn't have any Internet of Things (IoT), patients were constrained to connect with doctors via visits and telephonic voice or text communication medium. It was literally impossible for the doctors or health establishments to achieve continuous monitoring on patient health and offer real-time/near real-time recommendations.

With the introduction of IoT-enabled ...

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