The promise of the internet of things in healthcare: How hard is it to keep?

Rita Marques; João Gregório; Miguel Mira Da Silva; Luís Velez Lapão

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-665

The promise of the internet of things in healthcare: How hard is it to keep?

Rita Marques, João Gregório, Miguel Mira Da Silva, Luís Velez Lapão

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Abstract

Internet of Things is starting to be implemented in healthcare. An example is the automated monitoring systems that are currently being used to provide healthcare workers with feedback regarding their hand hygiene compliance. These solutions seem effective in promoting healthcare workers selfawareness and action regarding their hand hygiene performance, which is still far from desired. Underlying these systems, an indoor positioning component (following Internet of Things paradigm) is used to collect data from the ward regarding healthcare workers' position, which will be later used to make some assumptions about the usage of alcohol-based handrub dispensers and sinks. We found that building such a system under the scope of the healthcare field is not a trivial task and it must be subject to several considerations, which are presented, analyzed and discussed in this paper. The limitations of present Internet of Things technologies are not yet ready to address the demanding field of healthcare.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	665-669
Number of pages	5
Journal	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	228
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-678-1-665
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2016 at the Health - Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach, HEC 2016 - Munich, Germany Duration: 28 Aug 2016 → 2 Sept 2016

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©2016 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press.

Funding

OSYRISH project is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-COM/5016/2012) and GTHM/FCT (UID/Multi/04413/2013). This support and the individual grants to R. Marques and J. Gregório are gratefully acknowledged.

Funders	Funder number
GTHM/FCT	UID/Multi/04413/2013
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Excitotoxicidade e Neuroproteção	PTDC/IVC-COM/5016/2012

Keywords

Automated monitoring system
Hand hygiene compliance
Indoor location
Indoor positioning system
Internet of things

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