Internet of Things (IoT) in Healthcare

Why connected healthcare needs a product mindset

Healthcare providers must approach IoT deployments and digital transformations as products that must continually adapt and improve, not projects they can forget about once implemented. Continue Reading

Explore 3 IoT trends in healthcare for 2021

Healthcare IoT predictions for 2021 include growing adoption of complementary technologies such as AI and cloud to more effectively handle patient care and safety. Continue Reading

IoT predictions for 2021

The changes that organizations have made to mitigate the effects and risk of the COVID-19 pandemic have set the stage for IoT development predictions for the new year. Continue Reading

Why healthcare providers must take action to eliminate cybersecurity risks

Healthcare organizations must prioritize cybersecurity even in the rush to adopt new technologies to cope with the pandemic because security threats have also increased. Continue Reading

IoT robotics prevents hazards in manufacturing and healthcare

IoT and robotics independently offer many advantages to organizations, but the two technologies can also improve when combined for industrial operations and healthcare. Continue Reading

Why connected healthcare needs continuous testing

By integrating intelligent testing and performance monitoring, healthcare providers can optimize software and devices to ensure better patient care. Continue Reading

How the COVID-19 pandemic is fast-tracking AI health innovation

The COVID-19 outbreak ushered in unprecedented challenges within the healthcare industry. However, digital technologies such as AI and IoT are helping solve some of the most critical issues. Continue Reading

The social distancing equivalent for medical devices

Healthcare organizations must follow these five clinical network segmentation steps -- including assigning responsibility for security and keeping up with industry guidelines -- to thwart cyberattacks. Continue Reading

Future of IoT in healthcare brought into sharp focus

Advancements in AI and the effects of the global pandemic are some of the main drivers that will encourage healthcare organizations to adopt medical IoT. Continue Reading

COVID-19 accelerates adoption of AR, MR and IoT technologies

Adoption of AR, MR and IoT technologies to weather the impact of the coronavirus crisis will drive continued growth of these technologies in several sectors, such as healthcare and education. Continue Reading

Healthcare IoT: Extended beyond the walls of the hospital

Hospitals and clinics must optimize their IoT resources and streamline operations to protect frontline medical workers, deliver the best patient care and support public health. Continue Reading

Accelerating digital transformation in healthcare with IoT

As the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, the learnings from healthcare will surely inform future infrastructure and IoT will be at the core. Continue Reading

Healthcare IoT's next steps come into focus

Industry watchers believe healthcare IoT is approaching an inflection point. Channel partners can assist in the next step in developing a strategy for existing data. Continue Reading

COVID-19 puts healthcare IoT's potential in the spotlight

Healthcare professionals can use IoT sensors to contain outbreaks by tracking equipment, personnel and proper hand hygiene in medical facilities and assist patients remotely. Continue Reading

Q&A: Remote care trend spotlights IoT security in healthcare

Healthcare IT professionals and medical device manufacturers must bolster IoT security with the growing number of connected devices, regulations and the future of remote care. Continue Reading

How can IoT help in the COVID-19 crisis

IoT devices could change the way that healthcare organizations prepare for and handle infectious diseases through remote health monitoring, data analytics and location tracking. Continue Reading

Ensuring patient privacy and care in connected hospitals

With life or death decisions hinging on the performance and reliability of digital healthcare systems, smart hospitals simply have no choice but to get intelligent technology right in the ... Continue Reading

Taking the pulse of your healthcare system’s vital signs

The human body’s systems can be a helpful way to take the pulse of a health system’s IT network. When healthcare systems monitor their health, they can ensure the ongoing delivery of high-quality care. Continue Reading

Where healthcare IoT is headed in 2020

Advances in healthcare technology mean patients will use IoT Devices to monitor their health and administer treatments from the convenience of their homes, but this also provides more opportunities ... Continue Reading

3 ways 5G IoT use cases in healthcare push better patient care

Healthcare providers can more effectively care for patients by applying the low latency of 5G and IoT technology into their services and creating new use cases, such as remote surgery. Continue Reading

Why healthcare needs a new security strategy

Rapid growth in smart devices in healthcare shines a spotlight on security concerns. Healthcare providers and manufacturers must work together to protect patient security before connected devices ... Continue Reading

IoT medical devices face barriers before a bright future

Medical organizations must break down the silos that keep their IoT devices from working together to effectively incorporate innovative technology that can improve patient care. Continue Reading

IoT technology for healthcare in 2020

The application of IoT technology in healthcare brings great promise for improved health outcomes, longevity and quality of life, as well as cost containment. Continue Reading

Connected medical devices experts highlight IoT remote monitoring

Medical technology manufacturers were one of the early adopters of IIoT, but that doesn't mean manufacturers know how to get started with IoT remote monitoring. Continue Reading

How can IoT innovations resulting from space missions be used?

Space exploration has shaped the course of society through technological advances in IoT applications for healthcare, personal and business use. Continue Reading

How do IoT and blockchain for traceability simplify compliance?

Organizations can use IoT sensors and blockchain to confirm their traceability systems meet compliance requirements and get through customs efficiently. Continue Reading

Why use IoT traceability over traditional methods?

IoT sensors and blockchain combined create a better traceability system for pharmaceutical manufacturers to combat drug counterfeiting and gray markets. Continue Reading

What are traceability systems for IoT asset management?

Organizations can apply supply chain traceability to improve their IoT systems for identifying and tracking goods in any industry, such as pharmaceuticals. Continue Reading

The breach with the longest shelf-life: Healthcare

IoT in healthcare provides great benefits for patients and healthcare providers, but providers must also secure IoMT devices and protect patient health data. Continue Reading

IoT security policy requires comprehensive, expansive visibility

Many IoT devices get overlooked as vulnerabilities for organizations because they are old hardware or mundane systems, such as HVAC. Plan with device visibility and network segmentation in mind to ... Continue Reading

Medical IoT devices lead to patient safety concerns

Medical device cybersecurity is a must, but it requires cooperation from several departments. A combination of training, sensible policies, enforcement and automation can help keep patients safe ... Continue Reading

Understand how to secure IoMT devices against cyberthreats

As IoT continues to grow, healthcare providers are left with a critical issue: IoMT cyberthreats. Combining automation with a system of best practices, policies and procedures can help prevent IoMT ... Continue Reading

A guide for smart supply chain visibility

Organizations can make better purchasing decisions and prepare for potential crises by improving the line of sight for supply chains with IoT telematics and infrastructure. Continue Reading

IoT and the promise of predictive health

IoT sensors and predictive analytics in the healthcare industry will change people's lives by identifying big picture patterns beyond any one individual's health. Continue Reading

Smart healthcare in the IoT era

IoT devices have the potential to make healthcare safer with low range and low power technology. Semtech's Marc Pégulu explains two situations where LoRa devices could improve the industry. Continue Reading

Software development kits drive healthcare technology and competition

Large healthcare tech organizations must jump on the software development kit bandwagon if they want to stay relevant in the market. VivaLNK's Jiang Li discusses the growing trend. Continue Reading

Three challenges facing IT infrastructure in connected healthcare

The increasing use of IoT in healthcare puts major strain on IT infrastructure. Vertiv's Martin Olsen discusses three of the top challenges and discusses why rethinking healthcare IT infrastructure ... Continue Reading

Secure healthcare IoT devices with network traffic analytics

Healthcare IoT devices are of particular interest to cybercriminals, but these devices are notoriously difficult to safeguard. Bitdefender's Gavin Hill explains how network traffic analytics fills ... Continue Reading

What are examples of successful immersive virtual reality use cases?

Many virtual reality use cases revolve around entertainment. However, immersive virtual reality is making inroads in healthcare and training, IEEE member Todd Richmond says. Continue Reading

An IoT DIYer's story of managing Type 1 diabetes, part 2: DIY to the rescue

PubNub's Jeremy Pollock offers the ins and outs of the DIY Type 1 diabetes IoT application he uses to manage his daughter's health, from the software used to the lightbulb he added to help him ... Continue Reading

The top 3 IoMT challenges keeping healthcare IT up at night

IoT technology is being deployed in life-critical situations, placing added pressure on health IT teams to mitigate new risks. Extreme Networks' Mike Leibovitz outlines the top three risks of IoMT ... Continue Reading

Securing the 'M' in IoMT to ensure patient safety

Connected medical devices cannot be secured properly by traditional IT security systems or even generic IoT cybersecurity approaches. Cynerio's Leon Lerman discusses why an extra level of ... Continue Reading

Investing wisely in digital security measures

Device security isn't a new topic, but with the growing number of IoT devices, it is one that needs to be revisited. Keyfactor's Kevin von Keyserling explains why finding dollars for digital ... Continue Reading

Introducing HealthOps: When DevOps meets connected healthcare

The digitization of healthcare, combined with connected devices and DevOps principles, creates a new wave of patient care. CyberMDX's Safi Oranski discusses why the future of healthcare is ... Continue Reading

With IoT, patients can get continuous health monitoring anywhere, anytime

Remote patient monitoring and other real-time health technologies built on IoT are revolutionizing patient care. Current Health's Christopher McCann explains. Continue Reading

Medical wearables offer new hope for diabetes patients

The internet of healthcare things and medical wearables are offering new hope, allowing diabetes patients to not only monitor their blood levels more easily, but also save costs and prevent other ... Continue Reading

An IoT DIYer's story of managing Type 1 diabetes

After his daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, PubNub's Jeremy Pollock decided to conjure a DIY IoT project to monitor her health in real time. Learn more about the process. Continue Reading

Why cardiac care is a key focus for the internet of healthcare things

Personalized health data from wearables and connected devices is becoming more accessible and actionable to patients and providers alike. VivaLNK's Jiang Li explains how this is revolutionizing ... Continue Reading

How IoT and 5G are improving remote patient monitoring

The promise of remote patient monitoring is often hindered by a patient's inability to use up-to-date devices in areas with proper connectivity. Clarify360's Michael Jordan explains how IoT and 5G ... Continue Reading

Does broad-based heart rate monitoring open up room for 'Mickey Mouse medicine?'

Broad-based heart rate monitoring wearables are being met with praise and criticism. As VivaLNK's Jiang Li explains, a balance needs to be struck between making connected health devices accessible ... Continue Reading

The 5 C's of making virtual healthcare the new normal

Health professional mindsets and consumer behaviors are changing. VivaLNK's Jiang Li explains why, along with these, the healthcare industry's five C's are also evolving. Continue Reading

Illuminating IoT in healthcare with LED lighting

IoT continues to add an increasing value within healthcare establishments, and LED lighting provides an easy way to integrate IoT and networking. Revolution Lighting Technologies' Joe Herbst explains. Continue Reading

Connected devices and connected people in today's sensor-driven world

Connected devices -- and the people they connect -- are having a major impact on healthcare, retail consumer packaged goods industries. Infor's Guy Courtin outlines the benefits and challenges. Continue Reading

IoT's impact on present and future tech: What it means for the common man

IoT is having a major impact on the world. XongoLabs' Ankit Patel outlines seven categories in which IoT will be a game-changer now and in the future. Continue Reading

5 lessons IoHT can learn from the tech world

Healthcare is seeing some of the greatest impact from IoT, creating a new category of connected health devices. VivaLNK's Jiang Li outlines five lessons IoT in healthcare can learn from the broader ... Continue Reading

Cloud in healthcare rises above privacy, compliance pressures

The cloud hovers over just about everything these days, including hospitals and health systems. Healthcare CIOs fully understand that migration is inevitable, but security of sensitive patient records and maintaining compliance with federal health and privacy regulations can create huge stumbling blocks. That also partly explains why the flight path to the cloud in healthcare has lagged behind many other industries.

In September's Pulse, our editor's letter explores the pain of healthcare organizations and their IT decision-makers who have to balance the need to modernize with the concerns for patient privacy. Along those lines, our cover story examines the brave new world of the cloud in healthcare and focuses on one CIO who maneuvered through the legal gauntlet of HIPAA-mandated vendor-provider business associate agreements. In another feature, learn how establishing healthy working relationships with vendors can help hospitals get past the anxiety of securely storing documents in a cloud architecture.

Also in this issue, exhaustive research reveals acquisitions taking place in healthcare and finds that artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging is attracting a significant amount of investment dollars. In addition, CIOs can lower the pressure to implement cloud in healthcare programs in their hospitals by following five diagnostic and testing steps that can lead to innovative software applications and successful deployments. And in another feature, we look at the widespread opioid epidemic and the role health IT can play in battling the crisis using weapons like analytics and integrating electronic health records with prescription databases.

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5 steps for creating a healthcare technology innovation plan

Before investing in and implementing a new technology initiative, healthcare CIOs should first diagnose the condition they want to solve. Then they can research possible cures. Continue Reading

In the medical imaging market, AI drives investment dollars

Investors in medical imaging technology leaned toward software that improves AI-related radiology and associated workflows, as evidenced by detailed research. Continue Reading

Opioid crisis solutions include analytics, EHR integration

Health IT stands ready to help battle opioid deaths through greater use of data analytics and improved integration of EHRs and prescription drug databases. Continue Reading

Cloud for healthcare presses on but is slowed by HIPAA anxiety

Facing mounting pressure to take steps toward the healthcare cloud, hospital systems find themselves balancing modern infrastructure trends with HIPAA safeguards. Continue Reading

Why the healthcare BAA makes the cloud journey much tougher

Applying public cloud to healthcare can create a brave new world for hospitals. The CTO of Providence Health & Services strongly advises reading the healthcare BAA very carefully. Continue Reading

IoMT: A pulse on the internet of medical things

From video doorbells and digital assistants to robotic floor cleaners and smart thermostats, IoT devices have infiltrated our lives. Next stop? Healthcare. A recent study by Allied Market Research ... Continue Reading

How IoT is improving the healthcare industry

The internet of things has advanced technology in many global industries, but one sector in particular is especially benefitting: IoT in healthcare. BairesDev's Nacho De Marco discusses. Continue Reading

IoT technology's role in pharmaceutical shipping

Vaccines and other medications must meet stringent temperature, light, humidity and handling requirements. CalAmp's Paul Washicko explains what role IoT can play to ensure compliance. Continue Reading

IoT may bring the promise of connected healthcare to life

Can the promise of the internet of things bring order to chaos when it comes to true healthcare interoperability? Two different attempts are underway. Continue Reading

At its best, IoT for healthcare bolsters data integration

Healthcare IoT aims for data integration, but interoperability challenges remain. Properly configured connected devices can ease these concerns for health organizations. Continue Reading

The smart machine era: The rise of the robot overlords

Smart machines will make our world much better, says RTI's Stan Schneider. The smart machine era will be liberating in ways we cannot imagine today. Continue Reading

Mission-critical IoT: What every business needs to know to prosper

Keysight Technologies' Cheryl Ajluni offers three things any business or product maker can do starting today to improve their chance of mission-critical IoT success. Continue Reading

IoT for me: How the internet of things is personalizing medicine

While personalizing medicine with IoT in healthcare is revolutionizing experiences for doctors and patients alike, Deloitte's Helena Lisachuk explains why connected health is not without its ... Continue Reading

Six ways augmented reality is changing the world as we know it

Mobiliya's Krish Kupathil offers six prominent verticals that have already integrated augmented reality into their daily workflow processes which enterprises considering AR should learn from. Continue Reading

The need for network assurance in a world of connected healthcare

While IoT has revolutionized healthcare, says Netscout's Eileen Haggerty, expanding threats and increasingly innovative tech make the need for complete visibility and service assurance critical. Continue Reading

Behavioral eManipulation: Attacking the care delivery workflow to deliver harm

Behavioral eManipulation, explains Independent Security Evaluators' Ted Harrington, is an attack methodology in which attackers use technical exploits to influence human behavior. Continue Reading

Challenges and changes: A look at today's healthcare IoT

Why has healthcare struggled to make IoT safe? MOBI's Josh Garrett discusses two primary healthcare IoT challenges: device manufacturer priorities and network access security. Continue Reading

Innovative, unheard of use cases of streaming analytics

Nexsoftsys' James Warner discusses three use cases where streaming analytics has a bright future, but has not quite taken off yet. Continue Reading

Retrospective: How IoT changed the world in 2017

Looking back at 2017 is just as important as looking forward to 2018. Vodafone's Ludovico Fassati offers key IoT developments of the last year that point to the future of the dynamic technology. Continue Reading

Healthcare ransomware attacks threaten patient safety

Worry about health IT cybersecurity has shifted from hacker-triggered health data breaches to ransomware and malware exploits that shut down hospitals and threaten patient safety. Continue Reading

AR/VR is changing the way enterprises do business -- ready to jump in?

Augmented reality and virtual reality technologies aren't just for gamers anymore. Harman's Andrew Till explains how AR/VR is changing the enterprise as we know it. Continue Reading

Making the case for healthcare IoT: Is it necessary?

A standardized and connected ecosystem can provide easy and seamless access to one critical industry: healthcare. Zephyr Health's William King outlines three critical value drivers of healthcare IoT. Continue Reading

5G offers promise to bring AR/VR into enterprise mainstream

5G is the catalyst needed to make industrial and enterprise augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality applications a reality, says Kaleido Insights's Jaimy Szymanski. Continue Reading

How not to sell IoT for healthcare to hospital leadership

When discussing an IoT initiative with hospital leadership, be sure to focus on the value the technology can bring to the organization while also addressing potential concerns. Continue Reading

Smart medicine: Smart buildings driving smart healthcare outcomes

Tapping smart building and IoT connectivity can positively impact how hospitals operate and the experiences they offer for those who visit them. Continue Reading

Looking ahead: IoT to revolutionize healthcare

From wearables to external sensors to proactive and preventative care, IoT is poised to improve the healthcare system and revolutionize how we view health. Continue Reading

IoT technology trends to watch in 2018

IPS' Mitch Maiman discusses IoT technology trends he expects in 2018, from improved security through blockchain to outdoor IoT growth to more wearables. Continue Reading

Uses for Bluetooth in healthcare include RTLS, indoor GPS

Bluetooth technology can be used in a hospital setting to provide patients with indoor GPS and the ability to receive information about equipment and medication. Continue Reading

Three examples of IoT in the enterprise

MOBI's Josh Garrett offers three examples of IoT in the enterprise and explores how a mobility management platform can benefit each. Continue Reading