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. 2020 May 15;11(4):713–717. doi: 10.1016/j.jcot.2020.05.011

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.