Introduction

With the growing population of elderly Americans in the United States, the importance of quality medical care is more critical than ever.  The increasing cost of healthcare has a significant impact on geriatric medical solutions, particularly lifesaving applications for senior citizens.   A recent study by the National Institute of Health (NIH) estimates the geriatric healthcare market to be valued at approximately $237 billion, and industry growth projects that this number will exceed $650 billion by 2030.  Furthermore, telemedicine use increased with age, as well as additional sociodemographic and geographic characteristics.  Given several pain points in geriatric care, such as access to care, rising costs, patient coordination, social isolation, and caregiver burnout, this is an important topic to examine.  Therefore, this blog post will examine the benefits and different AIoT applications for elderly medical care.

AIoT Applications

Various AIoT applications for geriatric care include telemedicine, computer vision, wearables, and the operating room.

Telemedicine

During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal legislation expanded coverage for telemedicine health care services, bolstered by additional funding provided by the United States government.  As a result, telemedicine and the ability of doctors to provide medical services remotely, via videoconferencing and mobile devices has significantly expanded.  In this regard, IoT technology has become a boon for healthcare services and related industries.  It not only allows for the monitoring of health parameters for geriatric patients from a remote location, but also gives them more choices in how they seek healthcare that is convenient for their lifestyle.

Computer Vision

Computer vision is another AIoT application for geriatric care.  By allowing for real-time patient monitoring of both physiological and medical symptoms, this cutting-edge technology aims to replicate human vision capabilities using computational methods, similar to how humans perceive and analyze data.   For example, with its focus on understanding images and videos, computer vision is used for cancer detection, early diagnosis of infectious diseases, medical imaging analysis, automated health monitoring, and healthcare research and medical trials. Moreover, now healthcare facilities can train computer vision models to detect if a patient falls, is sleeping, or another common activity for better outcomes.

Wearables

When it comes to wearables for patient tracking and vitals monitoring, this healthcare technology includes portable devices worn on the body, such as the wrist, to monitor a patient’s health data.  With unique biosensors that collect data from the patient, including heart rate, blood pressure, sleep patterns, and weight, serves as a valuable tool for managing patient conditions and gathering real-time data.  Particularly for older patients, the ability to monitor vital signs allows doctors to understand their health needs and concerns.

Operating Room

Finally, AI solutions in the operating room for surgical procedures remains a robust market.  With different types of healthcare equipment needed, from robotic arms to remote sensor systems, doctors and medical personnel rely on IoT technology to successfully perform their medical procedures.   Now with 4K video routing and high-definition displays, the traditional operating room is transformed into a state-of-the-art surgical environment.

IoT Solutions for Healthcare

Enter ADLINK Technology, the industry’s leading edge computing company. With an established reputation for reliability and safety, ADLINK Healthcare Technology delivers medical hardware and software solutions, which directly address the critical challenges faced in operating rooms, intensive care units, emergency facilities, and maternity facilities.   The company’s diverse portfolio of medical panel PCs, tablets, surgical monitors and other healthcare products are designed for maximum hygiene combined with operational dependability and control.  These medically certified products are available either off-the-shelf or custom designed to fit your project requirements.

Medical Panel PC

ADLINK medically certified devices are developed for use in operating theatres, intensive care units, emergency and recovery rooms. They support the highest possible standards of patient care and deliver maximum hygiene. Unique design features help protect against dust and liquid intrusion together with ease of disinfection, reduce the risk of smear infections – and therefore speed up turnaround time and operating theatre preparation.

ADLINK’s new series of MLC 8 medical computers with 8th generation Intel® Core™ processors deliver high computing performance and outstanding graphics processing capabilities. The MLC 8 series are designed with optimum viewing capabilities and hygienic, fully sealed and easy-to-clean housings. They can be used for patient’s vital sign monitoring, nursing care, clinical diagnosis, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), anesthesia monitoring and operating room documentation. With additional safety design and expansion capabilities, ADLINK medical panel computers and monitors provide a reliable and flexible system with high usability and convenience for doctors and hospital staff.

Medical Box PC

The series of MLB box PC are compliant with IEC 60601-1 (3.2 edition) / IEC 60601-1-2 (4.1 edition) for safety and performance of medical equipment. The medical platform features ADLINK’s MXM Graphics Module supporting NVIDIA GPU, ensuring the acceleration of image reconstruction and beamforming and moreover, significantly reducing data transmission delay, lowering latency, and enhancing image quality with AI to assist doctors in detecting diseases or other abnormalities. 

ADLINK Medical Box PC are offered in two sizes, MLB-3000 and MLB-3002. The MLB-3000 is a smaller platform fit for edge applications at the point of care.  Meanwhile, the MLB-3002 provides flexible expansion with two PCIe slots, allowing users to add function cards for more applications, such as a capture card for video streaming or 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet faster data transfers.

Medical Monitors

Finally, ADLINK Surgical Monitors (ASM) are medically certified, ultra HD displays for operating room procedures.  This series delivers unbeatable color resolution to support medical personnel.   In addition, they are fully calibrated for maximum color output with pure white protection glass to eliminate color shift. The fully sealed, screw less housings can be cleaned with wet disinfection, ensuring superior hygiene standards in pathogen-sensitive environments. Furthermore, their special certification ensures that they comply with the IP54 Ingress Protection standard.  By offering a full range of 24-32” displays, high brightness and excellent color reproduction with optional 10-point PCAP touch screen, these monitors are ideally suited to display surgical videos and mixed-modality images.

Conclusion

The holistic applications of advanced IoT solutions in geriatric care are transformative, impactful, and cutting edge.  The list of use cases for this next-generation technology includes long-term care facilities, patient intake, patient monitoring, preventive diagnostic detection, long-term tracking, vitals management, medication systems, and assistive robotics.   By offering both off-the-shelf and custom designed products to fit your solution requirements, ADLINK is ready for your healthcare project. 

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