Internet of Things

Healthcare Industry is an Early Internet of Things Adopter

by Jennifer Bresnick

A cross-industry survey conducted by Strategy Analytics finds that healthcare providers are among the earliest adopters of Internet of Things infrastructure and applications.  Thirty percent of...

Mount Sinai to Build $5M Precision Medicine, Genomics Center

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $5 million charitable donation to establish a center for precision medicine and wellness, which will focus on developing novel strategies for...

73% of Orgs See ROI from PGHD, Healthcare Big Data Analytics

by Jennifer Bresnick

Before it can be used for analytics, healthcare’s big data has to come from somewhere.  Wearable devices, mHealth apps, and remote sensors are increasingly becoming the source of...

Few Providers Discuss Wearables, Patient-Generated Health Data

by Jennifer Bresnick

Patient engagement, chronic disease management, and big data analytics are hot topics among healthcare leaders these days, yet few providers seem all that enthused about discussing the prospect of...

Healthcare Internet of Things Driving Global Market Growth

by Jennifer Bresnick

Whether the healthcare industry is truly aware of it or not, its strong interest in developing and acquiring patient engagement, remote monitoring, chronic disease management, and communication...

Three Ways the Internet of Things Can Improve Patient Safety

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Internet of Things may still seem like a futuristic concept better suited for Silicon Valley visionaries than community hospitals and rural primary care clinics, but healthcare’s web of...

Five Population Health Use Cases for the Internet of Things

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Internet of Things, that loose conglomeration of internet-enabled mobile and monitoring devices, has found its place in the healthcare industry almost by accident.  Providers and developers...

Five Core Competencies for the Healthcare Internet of Things

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Internet of Things seems made for healthcare.  Millions of smart sensors and devices connected through the internet to provide up-to-the-second data on everything from a patient’s heart...

How to Leverage the Internet of Things for Patient Engagement

by Jennifer Bresnick

Increasing meaningful, effective patient engagement is such a high priority for the healthcare industry that it is included as one of the three branches of the Triple Aim.  Along with reducing...

Why Healthcare Big Data Analytics Needs the Internet of Things

by Jennifer Bresnick

There are many ways to define the concept of healthcare big data analytics.  At its core, “big data analytics” is simply the joining of two or more previously disparate sources of...

Big Data Governance Crucial for Healthcare’s Internet of Things

by Jennifer Bresnick

It’s been six years since the number of internet-connected electronic devices surpassed the number of people who own them, the FTC says in a new report, but the Internet of Things is just getting...