Healthcare IoT in India: How Connected Devices are Improving Patient Care

A patient who is 68 years old and suffers from diabetes and lives in a Tier-2 town had to travel for two hours to the nearest city-based hospital, spending the entire day getting just one reading of her blood glucose levels. Now, all she needs to do is wear an internet-connected blood glucose meter, which will measure her glucose levels continuously and send that information directly to her doctor’s phone, so he can pick up any warning signs before things get serious, without anyone having to leave their house. The move from the patient travelling to get their information to that information coming directly to the doctor is what IoMT is all about.

What Healthcare IoT Actually Means

The Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT), alternatively known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), is made up of the various devices that constantly gather information about the patient and pass it on to the doctors or any app for the purpose. These can range from your watch measuring your heartbeat, a connected inhaler keeping track of your breathing activity, a Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor, to a ventilation machine in the ICU sending all the data collected about the patient through to a central interface. Each device has its own function, but when put together they allow doctors to keep a constant check on the patient’s health condition.

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