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For instance, connected monitors, test equipment and scanners located in hospitals or remote clinics can instantly send real-time data to doctors. Sensors can be used to track the location of equipment like critical care beds or oxygen pumps or ensure hygiene regimes are maintained. Remote monitoring of out-patients can reduce the length of hospital stays and prevent re-admissions. Elderly or disabled also increasingly using wearable devices to detect falls and alert caregivers.
In order to harness the data opportunity and improve outcomes for patients, those designing devices and applications for IoT in healthcare have to think very carefully about the connectivity layer.
Connected medical devices enable healthcare manufacturers to remotely monitor and track medical devices at hospitals and other health facilities. Whether it’s a blood analysis machine or a ventilator, medical devices need to be working optimally at all times. By enabling cellular connectivity, healthcare companies can ensure that medical devices are always connected and unaffected by the outages and congestion in on-site IT networks.
Hospitals, practitioners, and healthcare device manufacturers are using the IoT to keep patients remotely connected to healthcare providers and services. By tracking patient vital signs and health status indicators using connected healthcare devices, they are improving patient outcomes, enabling providers to serve more patients, and reducing hospital visits and lowering overall healthcare costs.
Connectivity becomes even more critical in makeshift healthcare facilities set up to mitigate patient overflow and triage patients. In such crises, healthcare professionals need uninterrupted access to data such as patient records, test results and supply chain statuses. Using local WiFi or setting up WiFi tethering does not suffice; choosing secure and high-speed cellular connectivity keeps temporary health facilities reliably connected at all times.
Telemedicine sits at the nexus of medical care and connectivity. The Internet of Things creates the opportunity to streamline complex medical processes, providing accurate and timely information for practitioners and patients at the point of care.
Why Semtech is your undeniable choice:
We are a full-fledged Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) for all cellular IoT devices (other than cellphones and consumer tablets). Our LPWA, 4G LTE, and 5G connectivity services are backed by our core networks and AI-enabled Global Network Operations Center.
As the inventor of LoRa™, Semtech is uniquely positioned to offer a solution which combines Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) LoRa sensors, such as those used for environmental sensing, with cellular backhaul connectivity to give you insights into your patients’ well-being.
We offer affordable gateways for retrofitting medical devices via analog, serial, Ethernet, or other custom interfaces, eliminating the need for specialized IoT hardware. And our rugged LTE and 5G routers ensure reliable mobile connection and offer Wi-Fi capabilities, allowing medical staff to work efficiently on the move.
Benefit from our 30+ years of experience in connecting machines to machines. Semtech offers both LPWAN (LoRaâ„¢) and Cellular modules to enable you to embed radios directly in your devices, so they are ready to connect to the cloud.
R.A. Brest van Kempen
CEO, RS TechMedic