Internet of Things Applications

There are occasional moments in the evolution of business and technology that offer opportunities to re-think the status quo and fundamentally change the way business is done. When the application that intersects business and tech is so compelling that it can justify platform adoption, we sometimes call this a “killer app.”



The irony of the term “killer” in the healthcare context aside, distributed health just may be the killer app that drives Internet of Things adoption in healthcare.

Distributed healthcare is the idea that by physically de-centralizing healthcare services we can provide better care, with greater patient satisfaction, and do so more efficiently. The core hospital environment is very good at providing intensive, highly specialized care for acute conditions, but is inefficient at managing preventative and chronic care. Accordingly, there is a growing trend to manage these care modalities outside of the traditional hospital-based environment.

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This IoT infrastructure enables a wide variety of scenarios, such as post-discharge and chronic care tele-monitoring, care plan management, medication adherence, coaching and numerous other scenarios that are only now being imagined.

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Healthcare is evolving rapidly in response to regulatory, financial and technology forces. Moving toward distributed healthcare offers efficiencies and improved care. Using the Internet of Things to support distributed health not only provides us with a ready-made infrastructure, but also folds in the advanced analytics capabilities to truly make this killer app a lifesaver.

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