When I was 5 years old, I took a pencil and put it in my nose. And as much as I tried, I could not understand.
Finally, when it hurt, and it was clear that I had done something serious ... I went to my mother.
My mother, trying to get a pencil, threw me to the doctor.
This was in the early 1970s in Mumbai in India, and doctors at that time had little technology for them.
Most of the time when you went to the doctor, he used a stethoscope, looked at you and said a few words. And if everything is in order, you will be fired and returned in a year.
The doctor tried to pull out a pencil, but it stuck. Now it has become serious ...
Fortunately, my doctor persisted ... and used tweezers or something like that ... he ever got a pencil. Primitive, albeit effective.
Now, sometimes this is what they will do even today with a 5-year-old who has a pencil full of nose. However, in almost everything else, health care is an area in which high-tech technologies are used.
Today we have robots used in general surgery, cardiac surgery and colorectal surgery, as well as in many others. If you have a diagnosis of a diagnosis, you can use a continuous blood glucose monitor and an insulin pump to control your condition.
Manufacturers of medical devices such as Medtronic, Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical now makes many of their products wireless transmitters that regularly send data to computers.
In every hospital you have patient monitors, drug delivery systems, cameras, and tracking devices. And thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, all medical professionals were supposed to start showing “significant uses” of electronic medical records by 2014.
This is a huge number of devices and data collection that will all be part of the medical Internet of Things (IoT).
Big data push
According to studies, by 2020, electronic medical records (EHR) will be in 95% of medical institutions. This is not only your doctor's notes and your prescription notes. The EHR will include your X-rays, scans, test results and everything related to your medical history. The goal of the EHR is to become the only source of your entire medical history, following you from the doctor to the specialist in the hospital until outpatient recovery.
IDC, a leading marketing research firm, estimates that by 2020 we will have only 35 babies of medical data, which is 44 times more than in 2009. If you are going one third of the way to the moon, or fill the hospital with 500 beds 11.3 times.
And this data is already beginning to be significant for patients. lives by searching for models and finding ways to use preventive measures so that patients do not return to the hospital for long stays and expensive procedures.
The Public Health Center Network (CHCN) is a hospital in the San Francisco area, serving approximately 200,000 patients. Using the services of Tableau Software, Big Data, CHCN experienced a 37% increase in the number of patients who see a primary care doctor after hospitalization and a 12% reduction in emergency room visits, as well as a 14% reduction in hospitalization.
“It actually turned a business analyst into a hero,” says Andy De, sales director for health and life sciences Andy De.
The healthcare revolution begins with the Internet of Things
The potential benefits to people's lives will be enormous, as Big Data companies are moving forward to help hospitals, doctors and even insurance companies analyze the abundance of data collected in the EHR and even from medical devices. This will lead to improved medical care and medical equipment. In fact, the cost of all aspects of medical IoT is estimated to reach $ 1 trillion by 2025.
You will see that big stock market winners are coming out of this medical IoT segment.
This is one of the reasons why I will recommend the manufacturer of medical devices IoT in the coming months.
You can take advantage of the medical trend of IoT from large medical devices, such as: Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) or Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) ,
Or you can access these companies through iShares US Medical Devices (NYSE Arca: IHI) This ETF has already exceeded 18% in 2016 in accordance with the requirements of IoT, which I described today. He easily beat the S & P 500, which is less than 6% per year.
