A Realistic Look at IoT in Healthcare

This article is an overview of the potentials and risk of using IoT in the healthcare and medical fields. Opportunities include elderly patient monitoring, increased access for rural patients and increases in time efficiency for medical professionals and data collection. Risks include cybersecurity threats, energy brownouts and HIPAA compliance.

Speculations of how flashy technological innovations like big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect the field of healthcare are at an all-time high. Separating hype from reality can give an indicator of where these fields are actually headed and how they might have the ability to change the face of healthcare forever.

IoT in healthcare has long been one of those technological innovations that seems like it could truly affect an entire field. For those unfamiliar with the Internet of Things in general, think of it more as the Internet of Everything. IoT devices are simply pieces of technology that have been connected to the internet with the purpose of sending, receiving or collecting information to enhance usability.

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