With the popularity of IoT devices, great changes have taken place in the fields of smart cities, connected manufacturing, wireless communications, and connected healthcare. In the healthcare industry, many medical institutions have begun to adopt IoT-based embedded development technology medical devices to solve the problem of lack of doctors in remote areas.
Workflow for Embedded IoT Medical Devices
User: The user will enter symptoms into the embedded medical device via the touchscreen panel. Users are also required to provide all personal information such as name, contact number, age, etc. The embedded device will then return a generic prescription for the disease found based on the input, or contact the doctor if no disease is found.
Embedded medical devices with IoT: Embedded medical devices receive input from the user to match symptoms to a preloaded symptom file and try to find matching diseases for the same. If no disease is found by checking the symptoms, it will perform the suggested tests against the preloaded symptom file to get an exact match for the disease. If disease information is not found, the system will involve a doctor with the given information, who will consult the user, diagnose the disease, and update the symptom file and disease file in the system accordingly. All patient and disease-related information is stored in a cloud-based data management system. Once the disease is discovered, the system will generate prescriptions for generic medicines for that specific disease.
Generic Drug Prescription: Based on user-provided input, once the embedded development medical device finds a disease, it will look up generic drug information in a preloaded prescription file, mapping the disease and the drug.
Cloud Database Management System: At this stage, the embedded device stores all user details in a cloud database. Different analytical reports can be generated based on the information stored in the cloud for future use and preventive measures.
As mentioned above, embedded development of IoT medical devices is helpful in areas where basic medical facilities are not available. Based on disease analysis and data stored in the cloud, it helps users to cure diseases and take preventive measures in a timely manner. However, it is important to know that integrating medical devices with the cloud requires constant network connectivity.