No Jitter recently published an article about the Internet of Things (IoT) and healthcare while connecting the dots between the two and unified communications. The article titled, “IoT and Healthcare: The Unified Comms Difference,” is an enlightening piece on IoT and its role in healthcare, and how organizations will improve care and manage patient engagement via unified communications.
Here’s the lead in: “With IoT, the immediate access to information and services is becoming a reality. However, IoT’s ability to improve care outcomes and influence patient engagement is largely dependent on how this information is shared.”
Here are the other money quotes pertaining to unified communications:
- “IoT provides the ability of various devices in a person’s life to be interconnected and, when aligned with unified communications strategies, enables a new level of communication between people and things around the world.”
- “Secure patient portals with multimedia options offer one way to use unified communications to better leverage the benefits of healthcare IoT. Patient portals enable the patient to engage with their medical information as it becomes easier to access through familiar channels of communication.”
- “While mobility and network connectivity are often discussed hand in hand with IoT, unified communications isn’t always seen as a third, natural complement to its deployment — but it can make a difference in the future of healthcare.”
- “The ability to analyze all the data and use it to improve care programs and coordination for patients between facilities or physicians is certainly the goal — and unified communications is poised to be a great channel for those information touchpoints.”
- “At its core, unified communications is a set of collaboration tools that communicate over a shared network to make real-time information sharing across multiple devices and media types between people easier.”
- “The smooth transition of patients from one hospital or care facility to another is a particularly great benefit of coupling IoT-enabled healthcare solutions with unified communications technology.”
- “As organizations continue to navigate the innovation, deployment, engagement, and regulatory factors involved with healthcare technology, the relationship between IoT and unified communications is bound to evolve. As it stands today, unified communications is well-positioned to support the IoT connectivity driving healthcare’s future.”
