How IoT is driving the digital health market

Several important benefits are driving healthcare organizations to embrace a connected future. Chief among them is the possibility to improve patient outcomes when data is shared in real time.

The IoT allows healthcare professionals to pull data from medical devices, mobile apps, and even chips embedded in our bodies to help diagnose patient’s health more quickly. The added clinical data helps fill in the gaps in patients’ memories of events.

Real-time data; real-time interventions

The goal of IoT in healthcare is not just early identification of health issues, but also real-time identification of dangerous health escalations, according to a case study published by the Advisory Board. (2) Real-time patient data allows providers to collect and process data from the patient which, in some cases, can enable providers to anticipate health issues and deliver time-sensitive interventions.

Another potential benefit of IoT is an increased return on investment for care organizations that opt to embrace a connected future, according to an article in HealthTech.