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Internet of Things A to Z
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Internet of Things A to Z

by Qusay F. Hassan
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
22h 15m
English
Wiley-IEEE Press
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17Internet of Things in Smart Ambulance and Emergency Medicine

Bernard Fong1, A. C. M. Fong2, and C. K. Li3

1School of Public Health, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

2Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA

3Add-Care Ltd., Hong Kong

17.1 Introduction

Recent advances of wearable health devices such as smart watches and noninvasive health monitors have generated interests in expanding IoT health applications to be an increasingly important part of public health. Various data collected by biosensors with varying volumes can be further analyzed for diagnosis and prognosis of chronic diseases. As health care service providers become increasingly reliant on intelligent and interconnected devices in every aspect of health support, critical reliability, data integrity, and interoperability are important considerations that need to be thoroughly addressed. Data analytics and syndromic surveillance for providing effective treatment in remote rescue entail careful consideration from data acquisition, selection, transmission, mining, analysis all the way to manipulation and storage to update electronic patient records (EPR) as well as disease database maintenance. To this end, challenges related to supporting on-scene paramedics by providing them with all necessary information without affecting the way they carry out their rescue mission must be overcome.

Effective on-scene treatment helps minimize the risk of developing medical complications, ...

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