The impact of SDN and IOT in the data rich healthcare industry
Needless to say, like every other industry, Healthcare is at the forefront of transformation, digitizing every aspect of its existence- from network infrastructure to virtual care. Gone are the days where we wait for hours outside doctors’ clinics to check our analog temperature and lab results. Technology keeps evolving and there is so much potential in healthcare to help make medical care anywhere, anytime thereby reducing the risk of patient and physician burnout.
The Healthcare industry is data rich and there are number of use cases spinning around IOT and Bigdata Analytics that offer the best patient care. Modern healthcare environment hosts large sets of fragmented information across multiple systems, networks and data centers across the globe. The bigger challenge is to inject a consistent yet healthy dose of next-gen technologies to deliver connected care and ensure security of cross-platform communication solutions. “Software Defined Networking” helps drive the adoption of “Internet of Things” by providing effective resource utilization, on demand bandwidth, adequate uptime, flow control, security and the sustainable quality of service. But we are still in the early days and it’s safe to say that all of us are on the lookout for SDN and IOT use cases.
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