Smart Healthcare Solutions: How AI-Driven IoT is Transforming E-Healthcare?

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Smart Healthcare Solutions: How AI-Driven IoT is Transforming E-Healthcare?

Amit Samsukha

@Amit Kumar Samsukha

November 2, 2023

AI HealthTech and Life Sciences

Traditional healthcare management systems faced issues such as overwhelming doctors and nurses with an extensive workload, long patient queues, heavy paperwork, etc. Looking into this, progressive advancements in technology and connectivity have introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications in varied industries, especially healthcare.

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things has crafted the idea of an AIoT. AI curates the value out of data accumulated via IoT. Combining these contributes to making healthcare smarter, targeting and enhancing human-machine interaction and data management practices.

Eyeing on the latest statistics, we found that, in 2023, the AIoT market size is anticipated to extend at a CAGR of around 20%, which was $9 billion in 2022.

The convergence of AI and IoT in healthcare organizations aids in beating such challenges and replacing the voluminous paperwork with an automated and centralized database and helps in patients' remote monitoring. Now, after knowing the impact of AI-driven IoT in the healthcare sector, the question arises of “how,” what’s the role of such technologies in this industry? How is it benefiting?

Let’s gear up this discussion and hit your confusion hard!

Emergence of AIoT - Story Behind

The need for remote solutions during pandemic days paced the AIoT adoption in the healthcare industry. It proved to help track virus spread, quarantine management, and secure food and water supplies.

During the chaos worldwide, AIoT-powered wearable devices were deployed to monitor COVID-19-related symptoms. This way, the participation of this technology in pandemic prevention and control pushed the development of the latest intelligent machines, like remote screening, remote intensive care, and intelligent diagnosis.

How AI-driven IoT is Transforming the Healthcare Industry - Varied Applications of AIoT

While being aware of the power of IoT and AI in healthcare, we can say these technologies will enhance operational efficiency in this sector.

AIoT can help clinical staff with reduced administrative work and improved workflows, freeing medical professionals to take extra care of their patients.

Key benefits of using AI and IoT in healthcare are chronic disease management, remote health control, patients, medical staff, inventory tracking, wait time reduction for emergency cases, drug management, etc.

Medication Adherence

IoT-powered pill dispensers take care of routine medication intake of patients. When integrated with AI algorithms, such devices help with data analysis that identifies non-compliance and notify patients' family members or healthcare providers about their adherence to the medical regimes or prescribed treatment plans.

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)

Wearable devices and IoT sensors accumulate patient data, like activity levels, vital signs, and other health metrics. Ahead, AI algorithms analyze this captured data in real-time, remotely monitor patients, and address deteriorations or anomalies promptly. This leads to enhanced patient care and a diminished burden on healthcare professionals.

Telemedicine and Virtual Health Assistants

Telemedicine is revolutionizing, thanks to AI-driven virtual health assistants that offer patients scheduled appointments and health details and even aid in diagnosing minor ailments. IoT devices, such as video conferencing, make healthcare more accessible for remote consultants.

Diagnostic Assistance

IoT and AI in healthcare can assist in improving the diagnostic process. Let's take an example: AI-driven medical equipment can scan MRIs, X-rays, or CT scans to detect tumor signs accurately.

Predictive Analytics

AI performs patient and real-time sensor data analysis accumulated from varied IoT devices and predicts patients' deterioration, any new disease outbreaks, proactive intervention, early diagnostics, reduces wait times, and optimizes ward occupancy rates.

Smart Hospitals

In hospitals, IoT sensors are deployed that monitor medical equipment's condition, humidity, temperature, and the assets' location. In contrast, AI algorithms anticipate equipment failures and enhance hospital resource allocation and energy usage optimization.

Improved Treatment

AI analyzes data collected in e-medical records and IoT devices to suggest customized treatment plans. AI and IoT healthcare improve drug delivery, like prescribing IoT-enabled insulin pumps for diabetic patients.

AI-powered Imaging

AI algorithms facilitate radiologists to detect anomalies appearing in imaging scans that the eye can't catch with bare eyes.

Smart Beds

At hospitals, beds equipped with sensors can detect patient movement, bed occupancy, and other vital signs that notify nursing staff if the patient is in need or expects bed vacancy.

Hospital Asset Tracking

Using IoT sensors, hospitals track the status and location of medical equipment. Then, AI algorithms optimize the maintenance and allocation schedules for such assets.

Possible Challenges of AIoT in Healthcare

Undoubtedly, AIoT benefits the healthcare sector amazingly, but we should focus on possible challenges.

Interoperability

AI systems and IoT devices should communicate and share data smoothly to reap the maximum potential of the technology.

Data Privacy and Security

The huge amount of patient data accumulated by IoT devices poses security and privacy risks. Robust measures should be followed to keep sensitive information intact and away from such risks.

Ethical Data Use

In data handling, ethical data use, transparency, and informed consent are crucial concerns to address while developing and deploying AI-driven IoT solutions.

Future of Healthcare with AIoT

In the new healthcare era, AI-driven IoT has made treatments more personalized, which has become the norm today. With the constant evolution of such technologies, healthcare professionals, industry stakeholders, and medical policymakers should collaborate to locate challenges, create regulatory frameworks, and ensure the harness of the most out of AI-driven IoT solutions while reducing risks.

Hiring an AI development company will help you overcome the challenges and experience an innovative venture in healthcare with AIoT.

We can say that the healthcare future is absolutely smarter, more patient-centric, and more efficient, and the credit goes to the ever-changing power of AI and IoT in healthcare solutions.

AI in Healthcare

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Amit Samsukha

CTO

CTO at Emizentech, Mr. Amit Samsukha is a well-admired ecommerce expert and IT consultant. With a decade of experience in eCommerce and mobile app technologies, Amit has been assisting businesses across the globe with how to leverage digital capabilities to build and improvise their IT infrastructure. A leader in his own rights, his teammates see him as a passionate researcher and an ecommerce evangelist. See him talking about ecommerce, mobile app trends, ideas, and innovation at Community by NASSCOM Insights.