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Usage of the Internet of Things in Medical Institutions and its Implications

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to explore new ways of creating value in the medical field and to derive recommendations for the role of medical institutions and the government. METHODS: In this paper, based on expert discussion, we classified Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into fou...

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Autores principales: Kong, Hyoun-Joong, An, Sunhee, Lee, Sohye, Cho, Sujin, Hong, Jeeyoung, Kim, Sungwan, Lee, Saram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36380426
http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2022.28.4.287
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author Kong, Hyoun-Joong
An, Sunhee
Lee, Sohye
Cho, Sujin
Hong, Jeeyoung
Kim, Sungwan
Lee, Saram
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An, Sunhee
Lee, Sohye
Cho, Sujin
Hong, Jeeyoung
Kim, Sungwan
Lee, Saram
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description OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to explore new ways of creating value in the medical field and to derive recommendations for the role of medical institutions and the government. METHODS: In this paper, based on expert discussion, we classified Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into four categories according to the type of information they collect (location, environmental parameters, energy consumption, and biometrics), and investigated examples of application. RESULTS: Biometric IoT diagnoses diseases accurately and offers appropriate and effective treatment. Environmental parameter measurement plays an important role in accurately identifying and controlling environmental factors that could be harmful to patients. The use of energy measurement and location tracking technology enabled optimal allocation of limited hospital resources and increased the efficiency of energy consumption. The resulting economic value has returned to patients, improving hospitals’ cost-effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: Introducing IoT-based technology to clinical sites, including medical institutions, will enhance the quality of medical services, increase patient safety, improve management efficiency, and promote patient-centered medical services. Moreover, the IoT is expected to play an active role in the five major tasks of facility hygiene in medical fields, which are all required to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic: social distancing, contact tracking, bed occupancy control, and air quality management. Ultimately, the IoT is expected to serve as a key element for hospitals to perform their original functions more effectively. Continuing investments, deregulation policies, information protection, and IT standardization activities should be carried out more actively for the IoT to fulfill its expectations.
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spelling pubmed-96724952022-11-29 Usage of the Internet of Things in Medical Institutions and its Implications Kong, Hyoun-Joong An, Sunhee Lee, Sohye Cho, Sujin Hong, Jeeyoung Kim, Sungwan Lee, Saram Healthc Inform Res Review Article OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to explore new ways of creating value in the medical field and to derive recommendations for the role of medical institutions and the government. METHODS: In this paper, based on expert discussion, we classified Internet of Things (IoT) technologies into four categories according to the type of information they collect (location, environmental parameters, energy consumption, and biometrics), and investigated examples of application. RESULTS: Biometric IoT diagnoses diseases accurately and offers appropriate and effective treatment. Environmental parameter measurement plays an important role in accurately identifying and controlling environmental factors that could be harmful to patients. The use of energy measurement and location tracking technology enabled optimal allocation of limited hospital resources and increased the efficiency of energy consumption. The resulting economic value has returned to patients, improving hospitals’ cost-effectiveness. CONCLUSIONS: Introducing IoT-based technology to clinical sites, including medical institutions, will enhance the quality of medical services, increase patient safety, improve management efficiency, and promote patient-centered medical services. Moreover, the IoT is expected to play an active role in the five major tasks of facility hygiene in medical fields, which are all required to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic: social distancing, contact tracking, bed occupancy control, and air quality management. Ultimately, the IoT is expected to serve as a key element for hospitals to perform their original functions more effectively. Continuing investments, deregulation policies, information protection, and IT standardization activities should be carried out more actively for the IoT to fulfill its expectations. Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2022-10 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9672495/ /pubmed/36380426 http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2022.28.4.287 Text en © 2022 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672495/
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