Within a few years of its inception, the Internet of Things has had a noticeable impact
across many industries, including healthcare. Healthcare technology has advanced in
every aspect, be it activity tracking, medication, research, communication or data
management. IoT is playing an important role in each of these areas, individually as
well as in unifying them into complete solutions.
The biggest innovation in healthcare technology in the recent past has been the
development of wearable devices and sensors. Both technologies have varied applications,
each of which promises to redefine the dynamics of the healthcare industry.
Thanks to the Internet of Things, personal health has not just improved but evolved into
a full-fledged dimension of healthcare. People are able track and manage their health
through devices and mobile apps.
These solutions are especially useful for senior citizens and physically disabled
people as the need to travel for tests and diagnosis has now been eliminated.
Besides health tracking and monitoring, technology has made personal healthcare
viable with facilities like communication and data sharing tools with doctors,
personalized coaching through software, and virtual health communities.
There is a massive influx of healthcare data through new sources like apps, devices, sharing platforms etc. IoT based tools like EHR and HIE help in proper segregation and analysis of this raw data. Cloud computing and Big Data technologies play an important role in this task.
As the name suggests, Electronic Health Records (EHR) are the digestible versions of
traditional medical files. Storing these records in the cloud enables easy sharing and
analytics by doctors, patients, and researchers.
In Health Information Exchange (HIE) programs, patient data is collected from
various sources and shared among medical service providers like doctors, insurance
companies, government agencies etc. It allows for collaborative working and reduces
duplication of efforts.
IoT applications in healthcare are increasing at a rapid pace. There is a clear shift towards acceptance of this new technology by doctors and patients alike. Hence, it won’t be an overestimation to predict that, with more sophisticated devices and software, the Internet of Things can potentially revolutionize the healthcare industry.
Alpha Fitness IoT provides inovativ solutions that build toward a more efficient medical
landscape.
Developing IoT platforms that enables continuous, connected and
configurable monitoring of biometrics, we are leading the way toward the future of
healthcare.
The ability to provide "the right care, at the right time, wherever a patient lives" is the dream of any professionnel implicated in healthcare.
Today, this dream becomes true! Wireless sensors are being integrated
into medical devices, with the capability to remotely measure and monitor a host of
physiological parameters—including heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, weight,
temperature, oxygen saturation, activity, sleep quality, blood electrolytes, fetal heart
rate, uterine contractions, and a wide and growing array of biomarkers.
Our goal is to facilitate the adoption of Assistive Technology by enabling
wireless low-power communication between devices and services
that foster safe, healthy and independent living conditions for the disabled or elderly.
In addition
to Assistive Technology, Alpha Fitness IoT applications in the health and fitness
domains
can address several other market segments and needs.
The Alpha Fitness IoT experts help consumers and organizations implementing applications for chronic disease monitoring, personal wellness and safety monitoring or personal fitness monitoring.
Chronic diseases encompass a wide range of health problems including diabetes,
asthma, heart diseases and sleep disorders. In many cases, chronic diseases require
some kind of health monitoring, especially in the later stages of the disease
progression.
"Alpha Fitness IoT" implements such monitoring platforms
for "nursing home" as well as for "hospitalization at home" services.
Personal Wellness Monitoring concerns the person’s activity and safety. This area
mainly focuses
on individuals age 65 or older, but this technology will find applications for the
general population. The Personal Wellness Monitoring application presented in this
study shows
several devices that would be used in managing the care, safety and activity of the
residents in an assisted living facility. The information securely collected by
these devices is centrally managed and analyzed.
It is in such
scenarios that "Alpha Fitness IoT" can provide solutions addressing the needs of
the medical staff and the patients..
Personal fitness is also a market segment showing high potential for use of wireless
sensor technology both in the home and in health fitness
centers.
"Alpha Fitness IoT" develops a large variety of devices and
solutions in order to accommodate the growing fitness market.
Our latest IOT Platform allows the monitoring and the data analysis of more than
15 medical sensors. New sensors may be easily added. We help you selecting the
ones you need depending on the biometrics parameters you want to monitor and to
analyse.
IoT Platform must provide a secure way to connect devices and applications to
the cloud. We give you access to IoT Platform providing the needed
authentication tokens for the connectivity.
An Operational Dashboard displays the data gathered from multiple sensors. We
can develop and customize for you operational dashboards that monitor real-time
data and send out alerts in case of deviations from acceptable standards.
Analytical dashboards provide an analytical view of present and historic data,
and act as a barometer to the essential health parameters. We assist you
developing intelligent dashboards in order to predict possible future events and
suggest event-based solutions.
Our latest IOT Platform allows the monitoring and the data analysis of more than
20 biometrics parameters for an unlimited number of patients. These performances
makes Alpha Fitness IoT experimental IOT platform one of the most
promising e-Health solution in the market.