Artificial Intelligence in Health | Smart Hospital
February 13, 2021
Digitalization in health is essential for effective, efficient and beneficial service in health.
Understanding the patient starts with data A doctor is like a detective and the patient's statements are insufficient to solve the incident, as the misdiagnosis will increase the cost for the patient, increase the time, delay the treatment and even die, so digitalization is a very important and vital issue.
such that there are more than 260 health practices worldwide and 70% of hospitals use at least one application for health conditions.
In the meantime, digitalization does not seem too costly to you, but you will see how profitable it will be in the long run and how life-saving it will be.
While explaining what the aims and benefits of a digital-smart hospital will be in a smart city-state, let's try to reinforce it with examples: let's get started ...
In the healthcare industry, the Internet of medical objects means direct connections of IoMT medical devices to each other. With these devices
- costs are reduced
- treatment improves results
- increases with patient experience and participation in treatment
- Improves disease management, provides instant monitoring of chronic diseases from a distance
Before these devices, of course, with digital diagnostic tools that facilitate remote examinations, the age of digital medicine is being passed.
- Travel and waiting times will be reduced and productivity will increase, of course, with clinic visits
- Surgeries performed or supported by robots will become widespread.
- With the help of wearable technology, general health, wellness and quality of life can be measured instantly.
- All the health data of people will be stored in "Big Data" and will be presented to doctors when necessary, but of course it will be supported by new legal regulations.
Remote patient care, one of the goals of smart hospitals, aims to monitor real-time patients by measuring various medical devices, implantable devices, wearables or other mobile devices, and sending these measurements to hospital staff. First of all, this reduces maintenance costs and results in patient recovery, while shortening waiting times and hospital stays in terms of smooth patient flow and increasing the satisfaction of patients or employees.
With improved diagnostic and surgical capabilities, new treatment methods are thought to be made by robots. However, they can also improve existing methods. Advanced patient safety with artificial intelligence. Devices that collect data on vital signs and drug intake or monitor life support machines provide patient safety if they can provide timely warning. they can increase
As for the equipment of smart hospitals, they meet around medical equipment for tele-monitoring and diagnostics ... For example, blood pressure, heart rate, ECG and other remote physiological measurements and drug delivery, medical equipment for administering therapy, automatic dose equipment, camera sensor and telephone internet connection, Includes topics such as telehealth computer system for recording physiological self-measurements
As for the devices to be used in the Smart Hospital, these are: portable external devices such as glucose meters (such as portable insulin pumps), wireless thermometers, implantable devices, pacemakers, life support machines, chemotherapy dispensing stations, auxiliary robots, patient tags bracelets smart badges such as clinical recognition systems, biometric scanners and many similar devices will be used. In addition, emergency communication applications for mobile devices can be used in addition to these.
In the Smart Hospital infrastructure: power and climate regulation systems including smart ventilation systems, temperature sensors, smart panels, patient and medical staff screens, smart patient room and management systems, smart locks (For example, interconnected locks such as wireless clips) ... In hospital units, it consists of departments such as smart operating theaters with surgical robots, hospital logistics robots, rehabilitation robots, robot nurses.
The Internet of medical objects, IoMT, already offers many opportunities for healthcare applications. Now it will be more concrete and realistic to show you some companies and institutions that have worked for this purpose in the world with examples ... let's start from the first
for example
The mechanism immediately alerts you when the Smart Belt eats more than necessary.
Pathway Genomics This company offers personalized health advice according to the genetic makeup of the person and sets a special diet program.
Crycadia's iTBra company can provide early diagnosis of breast cancer with its wearable technology device.
With the wearable technology developed by Cardiodiagnostics, it monitors the heart rhythms of patients and thus enables early intervention in critical situations.
IBM Watson Health company helps to solve data that health organizations cannot solve and understand with cognitive technology.
Quest diagnostic Quanum combines medical data with the data obtained from patients' examination results, allowing 1st step physicians to identify early memory loss or dementia diseases more easily
AICure has developed an application that observes the long-term conditions of the patients and helps them to adhere to the drug treatments.The application confirms that the medicine they take and the drug is drunk with the visual recognition system, this data is then sent to the relevant Health institution and the patient's physician. The patient is provided with regular medication
The developed Veebot robot is a robot that provides safer and faster blood collection from patients.
Kompai robots can speak, understand what they speak, remind you of the shopping list and play music to you
Robot Era can remind elderly people with dementia about their important work and information.
Artificial Intelligence has an important place in clinical research as well, as Atomwise has developed two different drugs and found them in one day thanks to Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence combined with virtual reality has opened the door to unlimited possibilities in medical education.
AdhereTech company offers a solution to improve the patient's commitment to treatment, as it is very difficult.The company produces medicine boxes that can be connected to the network wirelessly and instantly transmits the data generated in the medicine boxes, thus sending a message and warning to the patient when the patient forgets to take their medication.
By following the work flows of the hospital staff and the movements of the hospital, Stanley Healthcare enables all employees in the hospital to see the location of the equipment and the status of the patients with a system application.
Microsoft Azure IoT services also enable better patient care and management in healthcare institutions as well as reducing costs. Proper drug management By connecting cloud platform and many inventory managements, the hospital has achieved two-thirds savings in this way.
Honeywell Care Solutions collects health data from glucose meters and smart bracelets that measure blood pressure from devices that record physical activities.
HealthPatch, on the other hand, is a sensor attached to a disposable adhesive part and is used to monitor acute and chronic diseases. used for the analysis of parameters such as heart arrhythmia and body temperature.
There are many wearable technologies and devices, from smart shoes to smart glasses to smart socks. Most of them have entered our lives at this point, Smart hospitals and all countries are worth the citizen. The problem is at a critical value, which will provide countries with significant savings and, as you can see, keep their own people alive, in areas where costs are lost from many places, such as the increasing costs with long-term chronic diseases, the aging population and limited resources and the money paid to labor specialists.
