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 independent clinics have been a huge success across the globes for resolving minor medical problems but when it comes to serious conditions like Cardiac or Cancer  problems, the traditional clinic visit system provide a very limited view of patient problems and treat outcomes.

With IoT based healthcare ecosystem Independent specialist Doctors  can scale far beyond the opportunity of clinic infrastructure and reach many more patients than would be normally possible with traditional model. 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. All this new ecosystem has unprecedented revenue opportunity Independent Doctors and other specialist.

On patient side – many patients risk their lives by deliberately avoiding a specialist visit due to financial constrain or travel requirements to a large city for repeat follow-up with specialist, 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 independent Doctors are :

• Attending more patients and continuous revenue stream for monitoring patients as part of long term engagement plan
• Improve accuracy of diagnostics and medical prescription based on continues inputs from DVSM systems
• 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 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. Independent Doctors can get greater insights into the health parameters of patients on a single dashboard, allowing evidence-based decisions and forecasted, predictable patterns.