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IoT Cloud Network for Healthcare
Published in Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Sourav Kanti Addya, Cloud Network Management, 2020
Ashok Kumar Pradhan, E. Bhaskara Santhosh, S Priyanka
In recent times, with the realization of bringing patient-centric values of patient engagement and empowerment to the forefront, adoption of the latest technology in healthcare is become more common. With this scenario a new socio-technical concept of “Connected Health” came into reality. Its aim is to make health and wellness services safe, effective, efficient and as a result enhance the quality of life and lower costs. Connected Health is an overarching model that includes all aspects of technology use in healthcare such as telemedicine, telehealth, mHealth, and eHealth. Furthermore it mirrors gaps between technologies for information sharing and connectedness together for proactive care and integrated healthcare services. Moreover, it has opened up a new vista in healthcare by digitally connecting clinicians to clinicians, patients to clinicians and patients to other patients. Hospital facilities too are progressing in parallel by utilizing technological innovations to enhance the care and safety of the patients during their stay at the hospital, for instance, by installing automation systems in the building to regulate temperature, ventilation, and fixing smart locks. Interconnected clinical information systems such as Laboratory Information Systems ensure smart patient care processes. Moreover, identification systems enable authentication and tracking of patients, staff, and hospital equipment.
Environmentally led strategies
Published in Jane Penty, Product Design and Sustainability, 2019
At a personal level, the IoT is already making big inroads in day-to-day life for those who live within its net. Smart homes controlled through interactive home hubs can save energy and improve ambient comfort and security while reducing the stress of dealing with so many interfaces. Social sustainability in the form of enhanced wellbeing and health care is also a major focus for the IoT allied to new nano-enabled sensing. Connected health offers professionals and patients, especially the growing number of chronically ill and elderly, more control, independence and security, both in hospitals and at home (see figs 2.24 and 6.39). Wearable tech has also created the ‘quantified self’ for those wanting to increase their fitness and wellbeing by tracking anything from their physical activity and calorie intake to heart rate and sleep quality. Apps like Strava are encouraging competitively motivated runners, cyclists and swimmers around the globe to stay active. And, as we will see in more detail in Chapters 3 and 8, the IoT is also enabling the development of many monitoring and air-purifying products in response to the growing concern about air, light and noise pollution (fig 2.25).
Towards a blueprint for decision support in connected health: scenarios in maternal and child health
Published in Journal of Decision Systems, 2022
Richard Harris, Eugene Dempsey, Deirdre Murray, Simon Woodworth, Paidi O’Raghallaigh, Frédéric Adam
Connected health is a term used to describe a technology-driven model of healthcare service provision. While a standard definition has yet to be formally adopted, an appropriate definition of connected health is ‘a conceptual model for health management where devices, services or interventions are designed around the patient’s needs, and health related data is shared, in such a way that the patient can receive care in the most proactive and efficient manner possible’ (Caulfield & Donnelly, 2013, p. 704). One may therefore view connected health as an ecosystem that contains three pillars – interventions, services, and devices. These pillars are utilised together to improve overall patient outcomes, which each of them being closely integrated to ensure the seamless transfer of information between services providers and services recipients.