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| Clinical process efficiency | Medical facilities are employing connected equipment to improvise the delivery of Medicare. They can monitor diagnosis, offer treatments, and perform automated electronic charting. Doctors are able to sense EMR even remotely. IoT sensors can be exclusively employed for geolocating the patients and medical equipment. IoT has generated pill bottles which can track medicine scheduling [8]. |
| Ease to health insurance provider organizations | Health insurance company may benefit from IoT devices in numerous ways. These organizations can obtain patient’s health data by connecting with various IoT devices used by the patient in order to process the claims. By using IoT, companies can easily find out that which claim is actual and which is not. This leads to a transparency between the company and the customer [9]. |
| Patient self-/home monitoring | IoT technology should be directly available to consumers for self-assessment and assimilating biometric data, for instance, a smart thermometer that records temperature through temperature sensors of smartphones or some other gadgets. Some smart gadgets can let patients perform EEG at home by themselves. Such gadgets enable tracking and collecting patients’ records directly from their homes and also aid towards providing telemedicine services [10]. |
| Wearable biometric sensors | IoT should be widely employed in connected biometric sensors in clinical and hospital environments, for example, in heart patches used to monitor readings related to the heart and blood pressure reading armlets. These wearable sensors can feed instantaneous patients’ information to clinical monitoring devices at remote locations. As a recent development, sensor-based smart-phone-enabled “autorefractor” applications have been developed to evaluate vision [11]. |
| Fitness wearables | Nowadays, smart fitness tracker and apparels that can record data and monitor and control the fitness state are highly demanded in the market. These devices while being connected to smart phone applications may track and advise some repost regarding fitness [12]. |
| Neuro- and brain sensing | Research is on the way to make high-tech patient/customer-oriented cranial wearables: IoT smart equipment that can read brainwaves and monitor and send certain mood-elevating neurosignals, which may be crucial in monitoring the mental health of patients. Noninvasive neurotechnology is also explored, which may be used for calibrating the drug efficiency [13]. |
| Monitoring of newborn (new natal care) | As another dimensional view of this technology, IoT-driven smart and handy wearables can sense and transmit infant’s movements, instant temperature, and sleeping patterns to the hand-held devices of their parents, like a smartphone. It enables the parents to be always informed of their kids’ physical parameters and, accordingly, take a responsive action [14]. |
| Sleep monitors | Several diseases like sleep disorders and other neuropsychological may be treated by sleep tracking and monitoring. Smart IoT-driven devices can monitor and generate continuous reports for remotely located clinicians. Certain smart-phone-driven applications that may be connected to the hardware sleep monitors may further aid in controlling the sleep patterns without clinical help [15]. |
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