TECHNOLOGY | IOT
64 hospitals with a challenging employeeto-patient ratio . It is this capacity generating quality of IoT which Naveen Kumar , Vice President of Technology in the Research and Innovation group at Altran , says will be the most overt gain . “ The enablement of new use cases which were previously not possible , such as continuous monitoring , treatment adherence , etc , will now be possible . These will be based on trueto-life evidence to drive better patient outcomes .” An example he gives of this principle in action is a recent one : patients with a chronic condition that don ’ t want to visit a hospital because of COVID-19 will be spared an uncomfortable situation via IoT-enabled healthcare , which can monitor them remotely and accurately in the safety of their own home . “ This also means that doses of medicine can be more accurate , more effective and ultimately drive greater efficiency .” Indeed , Kumar also claims that data collected and analysed can be accurate enough to preempt the worsening of symptoms up to three days in advance .
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