Table 1.

Major roles and services of IoMT in the field of orthopaedic during COVID-19.

S.No.	Role of IoMT	Description
1	Proactive orthopaedic treatment	•It opens the door for an interrupted health supervising and offering proactive orthopaedic care.
2	Cost Reduction	•It is cost-effective; as the cost incurred by the patients in the frequent visits to doctors, testing, etc. can be avoided.
3	Emergency Care	•IoMT creates an advanced culture in the treatment process by using the analytics and modern digital devices so that anypossible emergency can be predicted and analyzed from a distance away.
4	Remote orthopaedic care	•The orthopaedic patients in a remote location can be treated through cloud-based services, telemedicine, etc.
5	Health monitoring and tracking	•IoMT offers advanced digital wearable devices for the proper monitoring of the patients. The pulse, Blood pressure, etc. can be checked and monitored.
		•The health tracking of orthopaedic patients can be made by using cloud-based data analyzing and report testing.
6	For Physicians	•IoMT enables physicians with the smart monitoring of the patients. In the present COVID-19 situation, when the pandemic is not allowing face to face regular interactions, IoMT offers a super class facility.
		•The offered analysis results help the doctors to decide on further necessary treatment protocols.
7	For orthopaedic Hospitals	•Smart orthopaedic hospitals can be developed by using this technology. The well-connected devices make the proper hygiene monitoring system within the hospital so that any possible infections can be avoided.
		•Enables the medical staffs to serve the patients instantly whenever needed. Real-time monitoring culture makes smarter care of patients effectively.
8	Offers fast disease detection	•The real-time database supports in diagnosing the disease at a very initial level as the data well monitored on cloud base.
9	For Health Insurance Companies	•The insured person can be monitored to avoid any possible fraud. It makes the claims, facilities, etc. more transparent.
10	For Drug Management	•As IoMT deals with the connected channel of devices throughout, the medicine storage and consumption can be computed out.