Massive Machine Type Communication in Healthcare Market Trends

Health condition monitoring is particularly important in chronic conditions hence, continuous monitoring and recording of signals through wearable provides a realistic view of the patient's health condition. Low power wearable also prevents patients daily visit to the clinical center for regular checkups and enable to track blood pressure, pulse rates, temperature, and HRR, etc. In the future, devices are expected to be connected to the wireless ecosystem and will transmit data automatically to the application server, via the M2M network, and enable the doctors to track the patient's health conditions remotely.

Wireless transmission through the devices improves patient’s mobility and provides an opportunity to monitor outside the health organizations. It will also act as a lifesaver by monitoring the patient's condition in real-time and in case of an emergency the information from sensors can be communicated to the nearby hospitals.

Medical transportation vehicles are challenging and can cost a life due to missed or delayed arrival because of lesser experienced or unavailability of driver. Hence, there is the desire in the healthcare industry for a unique solution to deliver patient on time. Autonomous vehicle (Ambulance) in future could be employed by the hospitals to delivery patient. Currently, companies are investing to research and develop methods for patient delivery through autonomous vehicles. For instance, seven major cities around the world (four in the United States) are participating in the Bloomberg Aspen Initiative (a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Aspen Institute) to research and develop the means for promoting AV patient delivery.