Healthcare IT News: Internet of Things (IoT)

The concept of the internet of things (IoT) allows the internet to grow beyond its limitations by encompassing everyday physical objects and permits them to be a part of a smart network system to communicate with other connected devices. These everyday objects are provided with specialized IDs to recognize them in an intelligent environment and to extend their capabilities to distribute data over networks without human-to-human interaction. IoT in healthcare has made remote monitoring possible, unleashing the potential to keep patients safe and healthy, and empowering physicians to deliver excellent care. The IoT technology is growing at a tremendous rate in which millions of devices added each year, and heterogeneous data (Big Data) is being transferred using IoT networks. IoT has revolutionized the modern world, and there are different IoT applications in various sectors, such as healthcare, agriculture, surveillance, transportation, smart homes, and intelligent environments, etc.