Intelligence in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Era

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Intelligence in the Internet of Medical Things
(IoMT) Era
August 27, 2021 Dash Technologies Inc Internet of
Things, Medical Device
The Future of Healthcare As íecently as 60 yeaís
ago, physicians made house calls in peíson to
check on theií patients. lechnology has given
íise to house calls via telemedicine, allowing
patients to engage with healthcaíe píactitioneís
with feweí in-peíson visits. lhis píactice has
been impoítant in the wake of COVID-19. But the
applications of the Iol in healthcaíe go faí
beyond telehealth. What is IoMl, and how is it
íelated to Iol? lhe Inteínet of lhings (Iol) is a
netwoík of inteíconnected smaít devices. lhe
netwoík enables useís to contíol devices íemotely
thíough softwaíe applications, while at the same
time, data is collected thíough
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stíategic touchpoints. Once píocessed with
computing poweí, the data collected can be used
foí vaíious puíposes, including healthcaíe. lhis
blog explains what IoMl is and how it plays a
vital íole in its implementation and futuíe
healthcaíe development.

• Accoíding to a íecent Deloitte íepoít, this
  should come as no suípíise Moíe than 500,000
  medical technologies aíe cuííently available.
• Table of Contents
• What is IoMT?
• Benefits of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
• Challenges impacting Internet of Medical Things
  (IoMT) Adoption
• IoMT The Connected Future of Healthcare
• What is IoMT?
• IoMl is a connected infíastíuctuíe of medical
  devices, softwaíe applications, and health
  systems and seívices.
• And while a gíowing pool and geneíal adoption of
  Iol technologies aíe benefiting
• many industíies, its a wave of sensoí-based
  tools including weaíables and stand-

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• alone devices foí íemote patient monitoíing and
  the maííiage of inteínet-connected medical
  devices with patient infoímation that ultimately
  set the IoMl ecosystem apaít.
• lhe íise of IoMl is díiven by an incíease in the
  numbeí of connected medical devices that can
  geneíate, collect, analyze oí tíansmit health
  data oí images and connect to healthcaíe
  píovideí netwoíks, tíansmitting data to eitheí a
  cloud íepositoíy oí inteínal seíveís, the
  Deloitte íepoít notes.
• Ultimately, this connectivity between medical
  devices and sensoís stíeamlines clinical
  woíkflow management and leads to an oveíall
  impíovement in patient caíe, both inside caíe
  facility walls and in íemote locations.
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  Device Eveíything You Need lo Know About SaMD
• Benefits of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
• Accessibility- lhe Inteínet of Medical lhings
  (IoMl) píovides patients and doctoís with the
  accessibility they want in íeal-time. Instead of
  visiting the patients íoom, a smaít
  caídiologist will monitoí theií heaít conditions
  using theií phone. And they can do that in any
  paít of the woíld. Insuíeís can also view
  patients data, theíefoíe, píocessing the claims
  fast. Patients can also monitoí theií data.
• Low Peí-Patient Cost- IoMl allows patients to
  connect with physicians íemotely without needing
  to visit them, eventually cutting down the cost
  spent on eveíy visit. Digital solutions can save
  aíound 300 billion USD to healthcaíe.
• Easy and Quick Implementation- IoMl allows
  patients to connect with
• physicians íemotely without needing to visit
  them, eventually cutting down the cost of eveíy
  visit. Digital solutions can save aíound 300
  billion USD to healthcaíe.
• Ïast Peí-Patient Implementation- Fitness devices
  and sensoís integíated with mobile apps allow
  patients to quickly monitoí theií health status
  by saving time and allowing íapid peí-patient
  implementation.

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Challenges Impacting Internet of Medical Things
(IoMT) Adoption

• Impíoved Efficiency- IoMl enhances efficiency in
  the healthcaíe industíy. But thats not all. lhe
  most significant píoblem patients complain about
  is the time, especially when they see a doctoí.
  lhe case is also genuine foí a patient who
  visits an emeígency íoom. Impíoving efficiency in
  healthcaíe is essential because it will impíove
  patient expeíience and even build tíust with the
  institution.

• Ïunding, Business and Opeíating Models- Diffeíent
  types of innovation will íequiíe otheí business
  models, and píogíess will depend on the
  innovatoís themselves woíking in new ways to
  take on íisks and íewaíds.
• Inteíopeíability- Foí inteíopeíability to woík
  effectively, tíavel should be towaíds open
  platfoíms based on open data standaíds. lhis will
  enable payeís, píovideís, and technology vendoís
  to make data moíe available to each otheí.
• Cybeí Secuíity- lhe incíeasing numbeís and
  capability of connected medical devices píesent
  additional íisks foí data secuíity. lhe scale and
  cost of bíeaches aíe often significant and
  faí-íeaching.

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• Regulatoíy Change- Managing the íaft of
  íegulatoíy change occuííing is impeíative foí
  both developing connected medical devices and the
  success of the IoMl.
• Digital lalent and Building Digital Capability-
  Key stakeholdeís incíeasing conceín that a
  gíowing skills gap will delay IoMl solutions and
  constíain maíket gíowth.
• Maintaining líust in a Digital Age- As Medlech
  companies develop stíategies and seívices based
  on the geneíation and tíansmission of patient
  data, they need to ensuíe they demonstíate
  cleaíly to patients, the public and health caíe
  píofessionals how theií data is being used to
  íeduce the íisk of undeímining the benefits that
  access to data can bíing.
• Scale- A key challenge foí Medlech is ensuíing
  that health caíe oíganizations, clinicians and
  patients undeístand the added value of connected
  medical devices and use them at scale to díive
  betteí economics and patient outcomes.
• IoMT The Connected Future of Healthcare
• lhe IoMl has stíeamlined píocesses and impíoved
  the patient expeíience. Patients benefit fíom
  convenience, higheí engagement and feweí
  in-peíson medical visits. Píovideís have gained
  moíe accuíate data, betteí diagnoses and moíe
  efficient time management.
• lhe futuíe of IoMl in healthcaíe is suíe to bíing
  even moíe significant advancements that fuítheí
  simplify the medical píofession foí píactitioneís
  and patients alike.
• IoMl app development is not something to leave in
  the hands of anyone. Peoples lives aíe at
  stake, and the futuíe of healthcaíe systems needs
  developeís and designeís who can undeístand its
  intíicacies.
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  healthcaíe technology that stíeamlines píocesses
  and impíoves the patient expeíience.