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Internet of Things (IoT)
Also we can maximize the use of precise talents to get the correct solution even to the
remotest location on time. This also helps to teach and train the next generation of physicians and paramedical staff more effectively.
12.1.4 Transition from Symptom-Based Treatment to Personalized Treatment
Today the solution toward health issues is just symptom based or based on blood tests
or imaging studies. The causes of such diseases are yet to be established well with each
individual, i.e., cause can only be generalized, and cannot be pinpointed as to why it
has occurred in the individual. We need to move from symptom-based management to
prevention and prediction, to bring out a cost-effective solution. This is called prognosis
and has to be individualized. Thus we have a different set of issues to be solved, requiring different set of tools to capture, analyze, and prognosticate the outcome. We need to
understand the personal needs of the patient, his/her genetic background, family surroundings, socio-economic challenges faced by the individual, the required behavioral
change to prevent the illness, etc. Big data analysis is required for predicting the risk
factors for each individual.
12.1.5 Placing the Responsibility with the Patient Himself/
Herself—Primary Health Care
In the decades of struggle, awareness to our own body is becoming better, but limited to
few set of learned people. The actual responsibility of health has to be with the patient himself
which is one of the eight principles of primary health care. It is time that he/she is empowered
with such information in the right way to bring in the next big shift in healthcare. To
achieve this, he/she needs an electronic health record (EHR) and gadgets to help him/her
monitor his/her health indices and trained medical people to help him/her. These personnel need not be physicians. But they must capture the information with the specialist
capabilities through EHR and gadgets. The healthcare system can take up the responsibility of continuously informing or predicting the healthcare status of each individual based
on his/her responses or behaviors, affecting his/her health.
12.1.6 Monitoring Vital Signs through Sensors
There are many symptoms a person can feel and experience, but a few critical and vital
parameters cannot be felt by a person; however, through IoT it can be monitored easily
on a continuous basis. Well-documented examples include pulse, blood pressure, and
body temperature. These measured parameters are remotely read and interpreted by an
expert on a live basis and opinion on this reaches back to the person, while he continues
to do his/her daily routine at a remote place. This is called healthcare anywhere, anytime.
This will permanently change the landscape of healthcare system, for insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry, policymakers as well as for healthcare workers, above all
patients themselves.
It is possible with the age of IoT. Various sensors are fixed to the body as wearable sensors, using low-energy radio frequency signals. The signals are sent to a nearby mobile
device, through which the measured signal is sent to a remote cloud server through the
Internet. There the required algorithms are applied and re-transmitted to the required
people anywhere across the globe. An intelligent interpretation brings the report back
to the person on whom the measurements were made. This completes the entire cycle.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Also we can maximize the use of precise talents to get the correct solution even to the
remotest location on time. This also helps to teach and train the next generation of physicians and paramedical staff more effectively.
12.1.4 Transition from Symptom-Based Treatment to Personalized Treatment
Today the solution toward health issues is just symptom based or based on blood tests
or imaging studies. The causes of such diseases are yet to be established well with each
individual, i.e., cause can only be generalized, and cannot be pinpointed as to why it
has occurred in the individual. We need to move from symptom-based management to
prevention and prediction, to bring out a cost-effective solution. This is called prognosis
and has to be individualized. Thus we have a different set of issues to be solved, requiring different set of tools to capture, analyze, and prognosticate the outcome. We need to
understand the personal needs of the patient, his/her genetic background, family surroundings, socio-economic challenges faced by the individual, the required behavioral
change to prevent the illness, etc. Big data analysis is required for predicting the risk
factors for each individual.
12.1.5 Placing the Responsibility with the Patient Himself/
Herself—Primary Health Care
In the decades of struggle, awareness to our own body is becoming better, but limited to
few set of learned people. The actual responsibility of health has to be with the patient himself
which is one of the eight principles of primary health care. It is time that he/she is empowered
with such information in the right way to bring in the next big shift in healthcare. To
achieve this, he/she needs an electronic health record (EHR) and gadgets to help him/her
monitor his/her health indices and trained medical people to help him/her. These personnel need not be physicians. But they must capture the information with the specialist
capabilities through EHR and gadgets. The healthcare system can take up the responsibility of continuously informing or predicting the healthcare status of each individual based
on his/her responses or behaviors, affecting his/her health.
12.1.6 Monitoring Vital Signs through Sensors
There are many symptoms a person can feel and experience, but a few critical and vital
parameters cannot be felt by a person; however, through IoT it can be monitored easily
on a continuous basis. Well-documented examples include pulse, blood pressure, and
body temperature. These measured parameters are remotely read and interpreted by an
expert on a live basis and opinion on this reaches back to the person, while he continues
to do his/her daily routine at a remote place. This is called healthcare anywhere, anytime.
This will permanently change the landscape of healthcare system, for insurance companies, pharmaceutical industry, policymakers as well as for healthcare workers, above all
patients themselves.
It is possible with the age of IoT. Various sensors are fixed to the body as wearable sensors, using low-energy radio frequency signals. The signals are sent to a nearby mobile
device, through which the measured signal is sent to a remote cloud server through the
Internet. There the required algorithms are applied and re-transmitted to the required
people anywhere across the globe. An intelligent interpretation brings the report back
to the person on whom the measurements were made. This completes the entire cycle.