The healthcare industry is passing through a major change due to the impact of COVID-19. With the digital revolution in place, we must ask ourselves how this will impact the way patient care is delivered forever in future. While developing building infrastructure is crucial but  hospitals will also have to  enable new revenue opportunity thorough  IoT based new healthcare ecosystem.

With IoT based healthcare ecosystem the hospital can scale far beyond the opportunity of 4 walls of the Hospital infrastructure and reach many more patients than would be normally possible with traditional In-Hospital based services. We are already witnessing a major shift in OPD model where new mobile based platform will disruption the traditional business.

However in the popular platforms available today the focus is on “Transactional nature of follow-up/check-up” where the specialist gets limited visibility of progress but with IoT based Digital Vital Sign Monitoring (DVSM), devices are designed by leading companies to collect data on a daily basis or more frequently hence providing real patterns of disease, the effect of drugs and improvement opportunities

On patient side – many patients risk their lives by deliberately avoiding subsequent hospital care required due to financial constrain or travel requirements to a large city for repeat check-up but with DVSM the cost can be substantially reduced hence the patient is encouraged to follow the Doctor’s recommended and complete the journey towards best possible health progress.

The ability to get the right information to the right place and people at the right time is critical in determining the right patient treatment, but it is also critical in ensuring the safe and appropriate operation and optimization of the facility.

Some of the benefits with 1Carecloud IoT driven platform for hospitals are :

• Attending more patients (undergoing their treatment)
• Improve accuracy of diagnostics and medical prescription post-hospitalization.
• Reducing chances of medication overdose or monitoring side effects of medication.
• Early detection of emergency situations and dispatch for help

Leveraging data for greater insights into patient care from home and the facility condition can have a far-reaching patient impact. With the addition of AI, healthcare facilities are smarter than they’ve ever been before. Data from these disperse systems and remote facilities can now be aggregated and examined. Facility operators are provided with greater insights into the operations of each building, allowing evidence-based decisions and forecasted, predictable patterns.