Enter electronic medical records (EMRs), sometimes called electronic health records (EHRs). They embody a high-level mechanism for communicating general patient information among healthcare providers like general practitioners, specialists, and pharmacies. While this is a good start towards increasing efficiency, EMRs could be far more effective if they were more detailed, more dynamic, and could be updated in realtime. Today, EMRs provide a historical profile of patients. But with increased transparency, portability, and accessibility, doctors and nurses can use EMRs as real-time snapshots of...

Figure 2. Dynamic electronic medical records (EMRs) can function as real-time documentation covering a patient’s lab results, status, and other pertinent information about their stay. Imagine a smart hospital where MRIs or ultrasound images can be streamed wirelessly to mobile panel PCs or monitors used by nurses and doctors. And that these images or videos could be decoded and processed by AI algorithms in real-time to detect abnormalities and assist in diagnosis. Or, that neural network algorithms could be applied to live surgical video feeds to immediately identify cancerous tissues or other...

integrate a wide range of wireless technologies, enabling them to serve as both endpoint sensors and gateway controllers for healthcare IoT deployments that make staff more productive and care more cost-effective. G Series medical cart panel PCs are based on 7th generation Intel® Core® processors and designed to meet the mobility, connectivity, and processing requirements of healthcare IoT edge networks. Given the significant amount of compute performance, memory, 128 GB SSD, and expansive wireless connectivity options, G Series PCs are perfectly suited as sensor hubs that can integrate data...