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Nanosensors and their Potential Role in Internet of Medical Things
Published in Suresh Kaushik, Vijay Soni, Efstathia Skotti, Nanosensors for Futuristic Smart and Intelligent Healthcare Systems, 2022
The use of IoT with cloud computing has provided an opportunity to obtain real-time, high-quality, and low-cost technologies, and made patient-centric smart healthcare possible. Smart healthcare can help in reducing the cost of healthcare, providing easily accessible, highly efficient, and reduced hospital visits in non-emergency cases, thus enhancing the quality of life. It can be highly beneficial in rural/isolated regions, where the hospital services are too far away to be quickly accessible by patients (Yogaraj et al. 2017). Remote patient monitoring and telemedicine have been found to be effective in reducing the mortality rate and emergency hospital visits by significantly improving the ways of caring compared to the conventional techniques (Nakamura et al. 2014, McLean et al. 2011). The use of mobile devices and related applications have also been shown to have a positive effect on patient care outcomes and have enhanced the quality of life of the patients (Divall et al. 2013, Mickan et al. 2013).
Existing and Emerging Solar PV Markets
Published in Peter F. Varadi, Frank Wouters, Allan R. Hoffman, Wolfgang Palz, Anil Cabraal, Richenda Van Leeuwen, The Sun is Rising in Africa and the Middle East, 2018
Peter F. Varadi, Frank Wouters, Allan R. Hoffman, Wolfgang Palz, Anil Cabraal, Richenda Van Leeuwen
In addition to its use of telecommunications to educate health care workers, and its ability to eliminate the possible transmission of infectious diseases or parasites between patients and medical staff, the services delivered by tele-medicine can be broken into three main categories:Store-and-forward tele-medicine, which involves gathering medical data (e.g., medical images) onsite and then transmitting this data to a medical professional for assessment offline at a more convenient time. Dermatology, radiology, and pathology are medical specialties that are conducive to this form of tele-medicine.Remote patient monitoring allows medical professionals to monitor a patient remotely using various technological devices. Such monitoring is primarily used for managing chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and asthma and has application in home-based dialysis and joint management.Real-time interactive involves electronic consultations in real time between patients and health care providers. This method can be used for history reviews, physical examinations, psychiatric evaluations, and ophthalmology assessments.
Interoperability and Information-Sharing Paradigm for IoT-Enabled Healthcare
Published in Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Sourav Kanti Addya, Cloud Network Management, 2020
Brian Desnoyers, Kendall Weistroffer, Jenna Hallapy, Sandeep Pisharody
In addition to mobile technology, the emergence of affordable, wearable devices has continued to create new opportunities for mHealth. These wearable devices (commonly referred to as “wearables”) provide users with a convenient means to monitor and manage personal health and connect to healthcare providers via telehealth (e.g., remote patient monitoring) [263]. Although a vast majority of general-purpose wearables lack specialized health sensors, they have technology components that can provide functionality akin to that of health sensors, such as motion measurement, body tracking, body balance assessment, and pattern recognition [152]. In a broad sense, this ecosystem of connected IoT-based health devices has been termed the “Internet of Medical Things” (IoMT).
A secured and optimized deep recurrent neural network (DRNN) scheme for remote health monitoring system with edge computing
Published in Automatika, 2023
D. Pavithra, R. Nidhya, S. Shanthi, P. Priya
Health care is one of the fields that is tremendously developing in terms of technology as well as services. One of the prominent development in this healthcare field is remote patient monitoring and fast and early identification of diseases. Remote patient monitoring has gained more importance in the current scenario due to various reasons such as more elderly population, shortage of experts and fewer hospital facilities. Remote Patient Monitoring allows the doctors to monitor their patients remotely without any clinical support. Healthcare systems along with the support of remote monitoring aids in improving the quality of patient’s life with reduced costs. Early illness diagnosis, the capacity to monitor patients constantly and remotely, lowering hospital stays and death rates, among other benefits of remote patient monitoring. While designing and implementing a remote monitoring system, many challenges are involved such as sensors which are used, the processing algorithms used for implementation, the choice of contact or contactless method, and secure data communication [1].
Remote physiological monitoring in a Mars Analog field setting
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2018
Jordan R. Hill, Barrett S. Caldwell, Michael Downs, Michael J. Miller, Darlene S. S. Lim
In the healthcare field (even outside extreme environments), remote patient monitoring is a rapidly growing field where an individual’s clinical data is transmitted to a healthcare provider for review, management, and patient education. The motivation behind remote monitoring is largely to minimize healthcare costs, and to overcome the shortage of healthcare professionals among certain populations (Rajan, 2013; Sruthi et al., 2017).