There are many obvious advantages if we think about how the internet is influencing the healthcare sector. Efficiency is the first word that would come to mind, amongst many others.
Technology’s main purpose is helping and improving our way of living; so it goes hand in hand with a doctor or nurses key objectives.
Let’s take a look at some of the reasons on why healthcare needs reliable internet:
- Advanced Care Management
Sensor-fed data can be used to send alerts to patients and caregivers in real-time, so they can take prompt action. For example, wearables can record heart rate, sleep, perspiration, temperature and activity.
Broadband allows providers to incorporate devices to track the growth of wearables because the data collected by the device fills in the gaps in the EHR (electronic health record).
Care teams can get insight-driven prioritisation and employ internet-connected devices for chronic disease home monitoring. This is just another way for caregivers to be present in the lives of their patients.
- Improved Patient Health
The best way to visualise this is by taking the example of a wearable gadget such as a watch, that alerts you when your heart rate is abnormal or if you neglect to take care of yourself in some way. This information would be shared with other devices as you go about your life.
Full fibre Internet would allow for data transmission, ensuring that every small detail is considered to make the most advantageous decisions for patients by updating personal health data on the cloud and eliminating the need to enter it into EHRs.
- Home Care and Patient Monitoring
With video-based consultations for care and management of medical equipment in the home, the ultra-reliable internet allows for greater health monitoring as well as provision of in-home care.
The goals of such exercises are to aid in the early diagnosis of potential health problems such as heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and diabetes, as well as to reduce the need for clinical intervention and expensive hospital stays.
- Potential of Remote Surgeries
As the Internet continues to expand and drive innovative ideas, some scientists are already working on the concept of doctors delivering remote surgeries through the use of internet-connected robots.
If this idea was to become true, doctors could be available to people in literally every corner of the world which would be a massive help disadvantaged people or those who aren’t able to travel.
However, before we get there, the infrastructure for ultrafast full fibre speeds needs to be widely available and Gigabit speeds must be much more common.
High bandwidth is critical for a variety of health applications – particularly those that require real-time video or huge medical or biomedical images to be transmitted.
Aside from high bandwidth for individual data-intensive activities, high aggregate bandwidth is required to handle a large volume of moderately data-intensive applications, such as big medical record transfers.
The reliability and security issues with data are unavoidable, so securing a trustworthy internet service provider can drastically influence the healthcare system.
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