Security and assurance are important parameters in the field of medicine and treatment. Smart medicine brings peace of mind to patients by providing opportunities for more and easier communication, reducing human error, advanced tools and facilities, accurate medical care and overall high quality of treatment .
Smart medicine, always and everywhere
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In hospitals and clinics : As you can guess, hospitals and clinics have the most demand in this area. Internet of things in medicine allows these centers to increase quality and reduce costs. Body analyzer, MRI, X-ray machine and CT scan are only a few of such tools in health centers. Philips, Siemens, GE companies market this technology to diagnose diseases in an advanced, follow-up and updated form .
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In homes : Medical communication technology (Telemedicine) provides medical services for patients beyond the walls of the hospital. People who suffer from chronic diseases (heart diseases, diabetes, migraine) avoid going to the doctor all the time. Devices such as RTM stands for Remote Patient Monitoring that perform services such as measuring blood glucose and sending it to the doctor. The virtual assistant for the medical care of the elderly provides activities such as communicating with the elderly, reminding them to take medicines and the possibility of remote communication with family members and doctors .
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On the body : Advances in Bio sensor technology provide the possibility of wearing smart devices to check people's health. This method, in the form of embedding these sensors, makes patients confident about the treatment process and their recovery. In clothes, in the form of sticking and in the form of planting .
Benefits of smart medicine
Access : One of the most important benefits of smart medicine is patient-doctor communication in the least amount of time. A cardiologist can monitor the health and heart status of his patient on a smart phone instead of the cost of the office and hiring a secretary and nurse. Also, doctors can receive test results and medical images quickly anywhere in the world. Of course, in this case, the patient himself has better information about the process of his disease .
Greater efficiency : experience shows how the calculated reduction of costs increases efficiency. But this is not the only benefit of this technology, wasting time in doctors' offices and emergency rooms is another problem for patients, which smart hospitals were successful in solving to some extent.