Pointers at Glance
- The NHS is suffering from a major backlog of elective procedures.
- IoT enables rapid growth in UK digital healthcare and enables healthcare professionals to be more proactive.
- Global healthcare expenditure could reach over $10 trillion by 2022.
Due to the pandemic, the NHS faces difficulty with a huge backlog of elective procedures. It indicates that the share of individuals who are satisfied with the quality of NHS care has fallen to around 71%, and only 53% are satisfied with how the healthcare service runs today.
The good news is that the government concentrates on investing more in our healthcare services, and healthcare technology is being prioritized.
The Spending Review 2021 announced a substantial increase in health spending, with day-to-day spending in 2024/25 expected to be 13% higher in real terms than in 2021/22. In fact, by 2024/25, day-to-day spending on health will be 39% of total day-to-day spending on public services, up from 29% in 2009/10.
IoT Enables Healthcare Professionals To Be More Proactive
IoT enables better healthcare services and solutions and helps make healthcare professionals more proactive in dealing with patients. Data collected from wearable IoT devices can help physicians find the best treatment process for patients and achieve better outcomes.
IoT devices tagged with sensors are used for tracking the real-time location of medical equipment like wheelchairs, defibrillators, nebulizers, oxygen pumps, and other monitoring equipment in hospitals.
Improved Support Performance & Customer Experience
Cellular connectivity is an exceptional connectivity solution compared to Wi-Fi since it offers network redundancy. If one network is down, a SIM can switch to another, so there is no connectivity loss. From a user perspective, it is incredibly simple: the telecare solution has a SIM that connects and works straight out of the box, as opposed to Wi-Fi, which requires passwords and more.
Global healthcare expenditure could reach over $10 trillion by 2022. RPM and telecare are the key growth areas but have historically witnessed issues with accuracy in the field. Now, enabled by the latest innovations in cellular IoT connectivity, these solutions will help pave the way for better, more reliable future healthcare provision.
