IoT has shown remarkable growth in the healthcare sector.

Nowadays we are suffering from COVID-19 a global pandemic, people are rightly asking themselves how new technologies such as the IoT, AI, etc can be utilized to slow down the impact of pandemics and stay away from the future global health crisis.

Let’s see how the smart connected IoT devices have a key role to play in this tough situation.More Precise Patient CareTo prevent the spread of the virus, Isolation is the best preventive cure that needs to be taken as it may give exposure to an infected carrier and affect people with a weakened immune system.

Now, more than ever, health stats regarding virus symptoms can be sent to health care providers/medical officers without patients having to visit their clinic and risking disclosure.IoT plays a key role in remote healthcare and monitoring.

Such indicators are essential for physicians to interpret early on if there may be any rise in symptoms of the crisis.Analyzing Trends with WearablesOrganizations can utilize IoT wearables by continually monitoring and often collecting data about their health and safety and uploaded into the cloud.

Monitoring vitals and other health parameters like body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and blood glucose support to interpret a person’s health level.In China people are utilizing bracelets and rings synced with an AI platform to give a continuous analysis of vital signs, containing temperature, heart rate and blood oxygen levels, etc.Where a recently published study report by Scripps Research Translational Institute monitored such data and found that relaxing heart rate and sleep-duration data gathered from wearable devices could support notify timely and precise models of population-level influenza trends.