Internet of Things

Amit Manral

Amit is a healthcare enthusiast who is passionate about the application of

creative ideas to improve the healthcare ecosystem. He has been involved

with US healthcare for over a decade and loves to understand the challenges

of various stakeholders, impact of regulations on them and figure out ways to

leverage technology that will impact business positively.

Human civilization in order to ensure its continued

existence has been finding newer ways to improve the

longevity of the human body. Three distinct pieces to

this entire endeavor have existed right from stone-age

to modern times – Collection of information, pro-

cessing/analyzing the information and finally devising

an innovative solution once the problem statement

has been identified. Healthcare professionals have

invested time and effort in figuring out how the human

body functions and how it is affected by internal and

external factors, both favorable and adverse. If the

information collection process had the scalability and

speed that exists today, medical science would have

been light years ahead of where it stands today.

Today, technology has made possible what was in-

conceivable a few decades ago. There are ways and

means to capture massive amount of real-time data

at reasonable costs and analyze it meaningfully to

arrive at more accurate and effective decisions.

Internet of things (IoT) is what has made this possible

by rendering intelligence (however limited) to objects.

The following text aims to elucidate what IoT is all

about, why it warrants attention now, its implications/

application in healthcare, challenges that need to be

addressed before it becomes ubiquitous and what

might be its imminent future.

Fig 1. Schematic representation of how IoT devices work

Introduction

What is IoT? A simple yet accurate visualization of IoT would involve the following. All these components essentially enable

collection and processing of information, eventually leading to an actionable that makes business sense.

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