How IoT Data Integration Helps Deliver Improved at-Home Healthcare in 2022

When it comes to your health and treatment, hospitals leverage a variety of sensors and instruments to collect the necessary information to monitor and diagnose your health status. With essential health data integrated into one platform, healthcare professionals are able to quickly and easily monitor critical care parameters, which allows them to make decisions and deliver the best possible patient care. 

Comprehensive big-picture insight into various health parameters, such as a patient’s temperature, oxygen level, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration and more, is vital to gaining a proper understanding of a patient’s health status. But how can people who don’t have the money and resources to integrate those expensive high-tech instruments into their at-home care routine monitor and improve their state of health?

Integrating data from a variety of health-tech sensors and consumer devices in one common display for health status information and care can significantly improve people’s at-home health routines and potentially even save lives. While hospitals have the money and resources to use a variety of Federal Drug Administration-approved sensors and instruments to gain a holistic view of the necessary health data and deliver the best possible care for patients, the consumer care marketplace is not yet that advanced. Consumers can obtain FDA-approved medical devices, but they are typically prescribed by physicians for at-home care.