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Connected health devices for the connected world with IoT | MedTel Healthcare

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We are thick in the age of the internet. Devices as tiny as the size of a coin can be internet-enabled. In fact, so common are internet-enabled devices that by the year 2030, there will be an estimated 50 billion connected devices around the world. This network of internet-compatible devices is known as the Internet of Things (IoT) and comprises everything from consumer electronics to automobiles and even traffic lights. A growing number of devices are aimed at a certain sector with the capacity to truly revolutionize the world: healthcare. Thanks to this connected ecosystem, also known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), doctors are able to track patient metrics and administer care, all in real-time. According to Fortune Business Insights, the IoMT market is estimated to hit USD 142.45 billion by 2026. This growth is driven by an increase in chronic diseases and better healthcare infrastructure worldwide. The IoMT and Connected Care Ecosystem Internet-enabled healthcare devices ...

Telehealth Monitoring Devices & PRM Companies in India | MedTel Healthcare

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Telehealth Monitoring Devices is one of the fastest-growing areas of the health care industry. Telehealth monitoring devices allow you to monitor your health remotely, meaning you can remain at home, in your own bed, without having to go out to a healthcare facility. This allows you to consume fewer healthcare services, as you can monitor your health at home, and allows you to schedule your healthcare services, which means you can better manage your health. This blog will look at some of the most popular telehealth monitoring devices on the market. The sudden outbreak of the pandemic forced humans to adopt unprecedented methods to deal with it. Rapid deployment of telehealth to ensure an uninterrupted healthcare delivery system is one such method. According to the Mckinsey Report of May 2021, telehealth utilization was 38 times more than it was during the pre-covid times. Even though the deployment of telehealth in various specialty departments is variable, the overall increase is prom...

Insurance Companies & Remote Patient Monitoring Healthcare | MedTel Healthcare

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Remote patient monitoring is a way to cut medical costs by helping patients manage their health. Health technology companies like Peppertype have remote patient monitoring platforms that have a lot of potentials to change the way healthcare is delivered. This blog will look at how these companies are looking to help these insurance companies and how they can help change the face of healthcare. Covid-19 has changed everyone’s life drastically. Numerous systems and platforms have been affected by this and one of the most affected industries is the healthcare industry. The exceptional circumstances of the pandemic served as the great push towards  Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)  and Telehealth. Now, these are considered as the new normal. Many insurance companies, as well as the healthcare systems, are very much prone to this reality. Hence, they are opting to invest in different forms of telehealth technology, like RPM and virtual healthcare. The advancement in these technologi...

Pregnancy Monitoring Devices for Maternity Care

In recent times, technology has successfully been leveraged to build solutions to solve healthcare disparities sustainably. It is a very exciting time to observe and enable the transition of health-tech, from a latent initial adoption phase to a phase where its potential is fully recognized. One such domain, where such a shift is already preempted, is maternity care! Home care and  Remote Monitoring Healthcare  strategies are being considered as sustainable ways to synergize with the traditional  healthcare system . This shift started with a greater awareness of the limited utility of the unstructured patient data that currently exists in the healthcare system and is accelerated by the need for remote care that was felt during the pandemic. Resource URL:-  https://medtel.io/technology-transforming-maternity-care/

What Can Be the Future of Connected Care With Remote Patient Care

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  Introduction Medical advances, or rather health care have certainly made a big leap. You now have apps that simplify staying healthy so that you can go about your routine with full potential. Health data tracking, fitness coaching, health prediction, and trends – what more do you want. You now have a system that combines sensors, an application, and a Bluetooth glucose meter to track and monitor your blood glucose levels. And then you have artificial intelligence that will predict your sugar levels over the next 24 hours. You can even consult a diabetes counselor with questions in real-time. This system is only one among the many that are using  IoT (Internet of Things) medical devices  technology to create innovative treatments in the medical arena. We are entering an exciting era that is fueling health care innovation.  Nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are making roadways into medical care. Why Not Simulate Human Intelligence by Machines ...

Ola for Point of Care: Medtel I Lab | MedTel Healthcare

  Point-of-care testing allows patients to get a diagnosis in the doctor’s OPD (Out Patient Department), an ambulance, the home, the field, or in the hospital. The results of care are timely, and allow instant diagnosis and treatment to the patient. Enabling healthcare professionals to make decisions at the “point-of-care” has the potential to significantly impact health care delivery and to address the challenges of the rural-urban health divide. Shifting of curative medicine, to predictive, personalized medicine could rely on the development of portable diagnostic and monitoring devices for point-of-care testing. MedTel iLab  aggregates point of care devices and provides access to all devices in one app, where any care provider can have the following tests. The test includes 1. Blood Pressure 2. Blood Sugar 3. Routine Urine Analysis 4.HbA1C 5. Lipid Profile 6. ECG 7. Otoscopy 8. Fundoscopy 9.Hb% (Both Invasive & Non-Invasive) 10. Spirometry Other tests to be added soon i...

Connected Health Care and Remote Patient Care | MedTel Healthcare

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  Better connectivity is facilitating hospitals to influence new technologies, enhance clinical results, and drive physician and patient satisfaction. In today’s time, people are living with complex health conditions. However, medicines are costing thousands of dollars or even more. Some of the developed nations are carrying nearly 40% more surgical interference now than a decade ago. From big hospitals and health care units to small groups of physicians, there has been a huge surge in connected healthcare systems. Technology has crept into healthcare systems in a big way. Connected healthcare is transforming the way we perceive wellbeing and healthcare. Visit a doctor or a hospital appointment happens only when the need arises. So, maybe when you are under the weather, you might visit a doctor. However, everything has gone for a major metamorphosis. Sensors, wearable’s, IoT, and smart systems are taking care of our health in a way we have never thought about. Mentioned below are s...

Revolutionizing Digital Health with Telehealth Monitoring Devices | MedTel Healthcare

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  Each year, technology gets smarter. Devices are able to perform, monitor, and maintain an increasingly wider pool of tasks, giving us – humans – the time to focus on core responsibilities. Nowhere is this more evident than in the healthcare sector. Smart health technologies are quickly being developed to aid in patient care and improve outcomes. These technologies include the use of wearable, built-in, and mobile sensors that continuously monitor patients for diagnoses and treatments. Why This Boom? Back in 2019, activity trackers occupied the largest share of the wearable healthcare devices market, thanks to the affordability of these trackers, sedentary lifestyles and lifestyle diseases, and a sizable number of tracker manufacturers. According to reports, the wearable  healthcare devices  market, which was worth USD 18.4 billion in 2020, is estimated to reach USD 46.6 billion in the year 2025. Adopting mobile platforms, AI, and 5G as well as an awareness of home healt...

Insurance Companies & Remote Patient Care | MedTel Healthcare

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  Covid-19 has changed everyone’s life drastically. Numerous systems and platforms have been affected by this and one of the most affected industries is the healthcare industry. The exceptional circumstances of the pandemic served as the great push towards  Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)  and Telehealth. Now, these are considered as the new normal. Many insurance companies, as well as the healthcare systems, are very much prone to this reality. Hence, they are opting to invest in different forms of telehealth technology, like RPM and virtual healthcare. The advancement in these technologies has resolved several issues faced by the health industry, thereby enabling the providers to give the best care to the patients at a significantly low budget. Presently, remote healthcare is the new normal. The insurance companies are catching up with the reality and most of them are investing in different forms of telehealth technology and Remote Patient Monitoring. Whatever issues th...

Remote Monitoring Healthcare Enabling Patient-Centered Care

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  With the ascent of the pandemic and increasing patient loads, the concept of home isolation monitoring was pushed from the idea phase to the execution phase. Our COVID IRPM platform helped in regular monitoring of the COVID infected patients of the APEX group of hospitals and ensured that quality healthcare was delivered to patients so that they get the care they need and complications get detected on time! Remote Patient Monitoring for personalized care! Our model was focused on providing remote care and monitoring for COVID patients. We provided them with an app and devices such as an oximeter and Blood Pressure monitor and trained the patients to use these devices. Patients would follow a schedule given to them by their doctor and measure their vitals and track their symptoms, these vitals were updated at the doctor’s end as well and in case of an abnormal value, an alarm would be triggered at the doctor’s end and to the family members. Along with this, we enabled online consu...

Keep Your Stress Out During Pregnancy with the | Pregnancy Monitoring Devices

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  Pregnant women, wish to routinely be updated and reassured about their health and their child’s health to feel more involved and safe during their pregnancy. But, they often feel a sense of disconnect with their doctors and find themselves anxious and confused because of the lack of reliable information and resources. We, in collaboration with preggerz, aim to help them monitor and learn about their pregnancy themselves and connect them to their doctors so that they can feel more empowered and reassured. Empowering mothers to take charge of their pregnancy! Pregnant women are given a device kit, containing a Glucometer, Blood Pressure Monitor, Body Analyzer, Hemoglobinometer, Fetal Heart Monitor, and also given a smartphone app. These devices can be connected to the app via Bluetooth and readings are transferred, analyzed and insights are displayed to the doctor and the patient. Along with this, there are regular nudges to help the lady follow her schedules for testing, consultat...

Making Healthcare More Accessible with the Remote Patient Care | MedTel Healthcare

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  Our collaboration with eHealth System brings large-scale population health screening for public health systems. With this, we collect, gather, analyze a large pool of data of patients and provide epidemiological insights and analytics to policymakers, administrators, and program managers! Wi Point of care devices for regular screening! Health screening is conducted through paramedics in Primary Health Centers, Community Health centers and Sub-centers through IoT-enabled devices that are connected to our smartphone app, which helps them collect a large amount of patient data. With their high accuracy and ease of use, these are easily deployable in remote and rural areas for large-scale testing. Population data analysis for data-backed decision-making! Once an abnormality is identified, the patient and their abnormality is flagged. At an individual level, this allows quick identification of patients who have any illness and are connected to a doctor immediately. When this populatio...

Pregnancy Monitoring Devices for Prenatal Care | MedTel Healthcare

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  With our recent collaboration with the Govt. of Odisha, NITI Aayog (GOI), and NGO Sankalp, we aim to reach 200K ANMs (Auxiliary Nurse Midwives) and 25 million pregnant mothers each year. We provide the ANMs with a set of connected devices to monitor high-risk pregnancies. The data is captured and analyzed by our app which will help in providing patient-specific insights and enable quick decision making. Regular monitoring of health parameters! Through regular monitoring and systematic documentation and analyses of parameters like BP, Blood Sugar, Hemoglobin, Weight, and Fetal Heart Rate we have enabled faster detection of complications to take timely action and prevent unwanted consequences associated with pregnancies, especially high-risk ones. Quick analysis for patient-specific insights! Data captured through these devices is digitized which made it easy to handle and generated quick analyses of the patient and population health. This helped doctors to diagnose complications f...