A smart hospital includes large scale useof
Information and communication technologies (ICT) environment of reliable
assets. The majority of equipment includes mobile client devices, networking
equipment, networked medical devices, interconnected clinical information
systems, many other identification systems, buildings and remote care systems.
The equipment used largely work on Internet of things (IoT) for addressing the
patient concern procedures and setting up of new competences. Some of the major
components of smart hospitals are services, hardware and systems. Services are
defined as general, specialty and super specialty. The connectivity of smart
hospitals is classified into wired, wireless and others connectivity. Smart
hospitals consist many elements such as patient experience, new bureau models,
supply chain executive using real-time location system (RLTS) or radio
frequency identification (RFID), provider-patient cooperation, home supervising
or remote care, inhabitants health management, data life cycle management,
paying attention hospitals or micro hospitals and security devices.
According to study, “Latin
America Smart Hospital Market (2018-2023)” some of the major companies
that are currently working in the Latin America smart hospital market are
Medtronics, GE Healthcare, Qualcomm, Cerner Corporation, Stanley Healthcare,
Microsoft, McKesson, Philips, Siemens, SAP. These key players provided many
medical wearable devices, new technical advancements, wireless connectivity and
mobile health (mHealth) apps for easily entering in the market.
Some of the key advantages of using smart
hospitals are awareness on the personal data, reduced errors, decreased cost of
the treatment, improved disease management, better efficiency, growth of the
patient’s capabilities, eminence improvement and improving association between
medical organization & patients. The major applications of smart hospitals
are medical assistance, outpatient caution, isolated medicine management,
electronic health record & medical workflow and medical associated imaging
and many others. The technologies likeinternet of things (IOT), cloud
computing, wearable technologies, zigbee technologies, artificial technologies
and RFID have now been increasingly used in smart hospitals, which provide help
to doctors for superior for the medical treatment.
The Pan American Health Organization supports
the use of automated and new technology devicesin the Caribbean region. The
smart hospitals have assessment basedon the hospital safety index and a green
checklist. Baseline assessment accumulates information for building's routine
& operations and also measures regulatory requirements of functioning in an
emergency.
The market of Latin America smart hospital is
developing due to increasing awareness about digital health technologies, increasing
internet and smart-phone usage rate, growing government initiatives in
healthcare industries, growing digital therapeutic solutions, rising
investments in digital healthcare sector and increasing digital healthcare
startups are growing extensively which led to the development of the market.
Apart from advantages, some of the major challenges are poor economic
condition, lack of adequate resources in the healthcare industry such as
hospital beds etc.
The Latin America is focusing on mHealth owing
to mobile recognition in most of the countries. The region smart hospital is
also developing by implementing outpatient vigilance, remote patient
monitoring, and other offerings of the smart hospital. It is expected that
Latin America smart hospital market will be reached at US$ 0.8 billion, at a
CAGR of 15.4 %, by 2023. In upcoming years, it is estimated that this market
will be growing fast due to adoption of new technologies.
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