The internet of things has a wide range of applications in healthcare that can benefit a wide variety of people, families and physicians. Some hospitals are using the internet of things in healthcare to keep newborns healthy, while others are using the technology to track inventory and reduce costs. These examples merely scrape the surface of the potential of healthcare IoT.

There are already applications for the internet of things in healthcare, but the technology is still growing. While one of the challenges of healthcare IoT is how to manage all of the data it collects, the future of IoT will depend on the ability of medical organizations to turn data into reporting and management.

We can already see the benefits of IoT in medical facilities today with uses such as remote monitoring which can be useful particularly for patients who have mobility limitations such as the elderly or disabled, in some respects medical equipment can constantly report back to physicians and therefore allow them to prioritise care according to need and urgency or even allow the patient to monitor their own situations and have the medical equipment react on the fly as quoted by the example below: