Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

The following is a guest article by Zack Tisch, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Life Sciences at Pivot Point Consulting Medical devices have long existed and added value at points in the healthcare experience. From consumer wearables and smart home devices to point-of-care testing and other technologies used within hospitals and physician practices – these have traditionally existed in silos, capturing and transmitting data with minimal collaboration between providers, specialties, or organizations. Now, healthcare organizations are facing a paradigm shift where it is essential to move this disparate information into an ecosystem where all data captured from the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), whether at home or in the healthcare facility, is intelligently integrated into patient care workflows to drive improved outcomes. To enable this shift, it’s crucial for healthcare organizations to create a strategy and infrastructure that will allow them to utilize these inputs in a coordinated way while optimizing patient care workflows to leverage this data. Transitioning from Silos to Synchronized, Intelligent Data Many healthcare organizations have started to tap into the data presented by medical devices. However, it is usually piecemealed. A geriatric medicine clinic may use Apple Watch technology to help patients track their heart rate and blood pressure while a bariatrics practice may elect to provide patients with Wi-Fi scales and blood pressure cuffs to monitor...
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