The Assessment and Application of Internet of Things in Medical and Health Care Platform-A Case in Urban Area
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Huang, Min-Wei
Abstract
According to the statistical data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, the ratio of people over the age of 65 continues to increase, from 9.1% of the total population in 2003 up to 12.69% of the total population in 2014. This not only indicates that Taiwan is facing toward to an aged society, but also that appropriate health care and policies need to be made for the elderly in the future. Indeed, aging has changed the concept of health, sub-health and disease towards a more proactive view, causing modern countries to face not only the disease burden, which will cause the complications or serious damages to the daily ability or self-care, but also the increasing cost of health care expenditure [2]. The world is adopting a proactive and positive attitude in the aging population and related health and disease-related issues. Active ageing and healthy ageing are the important concept we focused on the development of the modern society. The “Internet of Things”, referred to as IoT, is not only a network, but also an information exchange between devices. The communication devices combined with engineering and medical science and technology have made IoT more appreciable and reachable through the internet without boundaries. IoT also helps advance the healthy and medical industry. For example, IoT for the diagnosis instrument has the following advantages: 1.With remote monitoring and support systems, equipment testing and remote diagnostics can reduce equipment downtime. 2. High efficiency usage and scheduling will be advantageous for patients. Of course, the exchange of data and information to health care is important. The IoT not only provides big data analytics, but also individual personal data gathered from medical devices and cloud database sharing. The healthy and medical care industry, like another industry, is now possible through the use of better cross-industry commonality of technology. With the ratio of people over the age of 65 in Taiwan will reach 14 percent, the Ministry of Health and Welfare also launched the future implementation of mental and physical disability, long-term care for the elderly people, community-based, home-style long-term care services. Therefore, how to establish long-term care information systems, and establish a networking concept of long-term care will be the perfect solution and integration platform to improve the quality of care and efficiency of institutions in the future. This thesis is to explore the concept of IoT in healthy and medical care industry and to integrate the expertise, network engineering and technical analysis and other indicators. With the application of management knowledge, we hope to construct the roadmap for analysis and evaluation of the IoT in the healthy and medical care industry. Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), Medical care, Health care
Subjects
Internet of Things (IoT)
Medical care
Health care
Type
thesis
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