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Improvement and Enhancement in Emergency Medical
Services using IOT
Kajal R.K Pandey
1
, Ketan Arwat
2
, Ishaan Sharma
3
, Prof. Sonali Patil
4
1,2,3
SRTTCǯs Faculty of Engineering, Pune University
4
ME. (Comp Eng.) LMISTE, Assistant Professor and Head Comp Eng, Dept. SRTTCǯs Faculty of Engineering
Pune University
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Abstract - In medical emergencies, the victims are not able
to talk about anything regarding themselves. Medical
information of patients is not available at that time for
doctors. Along with this, victimǯs wallet, purses, mobile, cards
are frequently separated by them because of theft, or
accidents. In these situations, a dedicated device that can
provide the ER doctors about the patient's medical
information can be very useful. The device can be described as
an IOT based Ǯvirtual assistantǯ for providing proper
identification and complete medical information of every
emergency patient to the ER staff and thus ensure timely and
appropriate treatment decisions. It provides personal identity
to that victim and medical information such as history, current
condition and ensuring that the information gets available to
doctors in time of need to ensure safety of family and friends.
Also, one can track individual with the help of device with its
software application provided with it.
Key Words: IOT, Medical history, Security, Safety, Tracking
1. INTRODUCTION
IOT which is called as Internet of things is a system
which is connection of objects or physically present objects
with network accessed by internet. (ere the Ǯthingǯ in )oT
could be the objects helping victims to interact with internal
and external environment, which in turn helps us to achieve
our problem statement. It is basically a concept of
connection between anyone, anywhere, anything, any
network [1]. IoT technology brings roles, challenges,
chances, opportunities in network based medical services
[3]. Increase in management of IOT in healthcare systems
helps in ever growing information and communication
solutions.
Medical emergencies can happen anytime,
anywhere. Victims in accidents, medical needs are sometime
not able to speak for themselves. Also for emergency
identification and communication devices and things like
mobile phones, wallet /purses are either stolen or separated
from victim because of some reasons A system which can
help victim display their identity to doctors when in need
and helps an individual keep a track of their respective
members, creates a high chance for victim to survive a
situation of medical emergencies. Medical devices which are
IOT based are of different size, shape which contains high
electronic equipment that are linked with network devices.
Ensuring that it is connected with good cellular network
connectivity so that data access can be done anywhere is one
of key factor in it. Organizations try to focus on its data
access and storage for further analytic.
2. Literature Survey
The IoT is an ongoing huge trend in upcoming
growing technologies that can leave a huge impact on the
very single business trending and can be defined as the inter
and intra connection of different yet unique objects and
devices present within day today environment with benefits
increasing as needs increases. [1]. By using IOT, Medical
health concept uses sensors, computing, communication for
healthcare is attracting more researchers to use this in
various services. [7][3]. Various techniques flourishing IOT
for social causes have been developed or still in progress. In
last few years, researchers have taken a keen interest in IOT
in healthcare system. Minimizing human effort to a certain
extent by keeping it safe as well has become new trend in
research world. It is not new concept still overgrowing,
empowering and gaining attention in increasing order day
by day. In this usage of electronic devices using cloud
computing; private or public. Many examples are their such
as garage door openers which uses user identity as a main
concept to send information to user mobile phones. All can
see how healthcare using IOT is picking up speed in
accelerating healthcare system network even though
problems remain continuously.
In paper [1], IOT is used for pediatric and elderly
care and for their private health management. Though it has
few drawbacks as in this there is no future in E-health and it
doesn't maintain standard network model which has less
chances of data protection. In paper [2], patient monitoring
can be by staff anywhere and everywhere. But it has complex
infrastructure which in emergency can cause problems. In
paper [3], various interfacing is done between devices so
that ER- doctors can use it without any problems. But it
requires wide range of data to be accessed through app as
this requires heterogeneity of database. In paper [4], it put
forth idea of smart hotel management for monitoring health
care system. The only difficulty in this is maintaining current
and past medical information of patient with a good track of
them.
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