Revolutionising health care with IoT and AI: Breakthrough innovations and future trends

As we look at the most transformative forces in health care today, we immediately see the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence which are reshaping the entire health care ecosystem. Outside of the direct patients’ engagement, the IoT devices are able to improve health care operations by streamlining inventory management, tracking equipment usage, and optimising hospital workflows. While IoT devices provide the additional monitoring capabilities through their connectivity, AI is beginning to play much bigger role especially in fields like radiology, oncology, precision medicine and personalised treatment for complex cases. It is not feasible or even desirable to remove humans from the treatment cycle, but AI advisory can definitely make it easier for health care professionals to treat their patients. Issues like AI hallucination, access to clinical data for training AI models, data quality and anonymisation to prevent the patients’ privacy, informed consent to the data access and regulatory requirements are just some of the challenges that need to be addressed before AI in health care starts reaching its full potential.