Abstract
There is a large pool of elderly population in the country that has continuous healthcare needs. This pool will continue to expand as the baby boomer population starts to age and retire. There are multiple avenues if healthcare organizations (HCOs) start to employ telemedicine services to assist the aging population. There are smart devices such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can be utilized to remotely monitor patient vitals. And these devices can communicate with patient charts and the clinical staff can send advice via these tools and in case of emergencies they can send paramedics to patient homes. These strategies can reduce hospitals stays that are considerably more expensive to both patients and healthcare organizations as well as the government health services. This research will focus on the success of telemedicine in the current healthcare landscape and potential improvements to optimizing telemedicine.
Introduction Clinical services and medical management of disease is a necessity that must be …show more content…
The IoT can be an enabler in improving patient outcomes and avoid costly patient hospital stays by reducing readmissions and by enabling remote monitoring and remote care delivery (Raghupathi & Raghupathi, 2014). For example using smart thermometers, smart blood pressure monitors and smart heart monitors can alert remote clinic nurses and doctors, who will in turn direct paramedics to targeted patients and help them improve outcomes.
Additionally, IoT devices can be used in Big Data analytics by large health care organization to connect with government agencies to detect disease spread before the disease becomes an epidemic. The smart devices can transmit population disease trends to regional, national and international agencies that can collaborate in disease control and target patient management and multi-agency
There is a large pool of elderly population in the country that has continuous healthcare needs. This pool will continue to expand as the baby boomer population starts to age and retire. There are multiple avenues if healthcare organizations (HCOs) start to employ telemedicine services to assist the aging population. There are smart devices such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can be utilized to remotely monitor patient vitals. And these devices can communicate with patient charts and the clinical staff can send advice via these tools and in case of emergencies they can send paramedics to patient homes. These strategies can reduce hospitals stays that are considerably more expensive to both patients and healthcare organizations as well as the government health services. This research will focus on the success of telemedicine in the current healthcare landscape and potential improvements to optimizing telemedicine.
Introduction Clinical services and medical management of disease is a necessity that must be …show more content…
The IoT can be an enabler in improving patient outcomes and avoid costly patient hospital stays by reducing readmissions and by enabling remote monitoring and remote care delivery (Raghupathi & Raghupathi, 2014). For example using smart thermometers, smart blood pressure monitors and smart heart monitors can alert remote clinic nurses and doctors, who will in turn direct paramedics to targeted patients and help them improve outcomes.
Additionally, IoT devices can be used in Big Data analytics by large health care organization to connect with government agencies to detect disease spread before the disease becomes an epidemic. The smart devices can transmit population disease trends to regional, national and international agencies that can collaborate in disease control and target patient management and multi-agency