Telecom26 provides flexible, secure IoT Connectivity for a number of remote healthcare and telemedicine applications across the world.
The IoT Connectivity we provide to our customers enables an ever-expanding range of diagnostic, data collection and incident response services. We can provide traditional SIMs with global coverage, eSIMs for integration with specialised devices, routers to provide local and macro IoT Connectivity, all the way to complete private cellular networks that can be assembled quickly.
Our ability to provide IoT Connectivity by connecting to any network plays a key role in reducing costs, increasing flexibility and delivering the coverage needed for all types of digital healthcare projects.
Our flagship customer is SystemOne. We have been providing IoT connectivity to its digital healthcare programmes across both Africa and Asia for several years now. Most recently the contract has been extended to SystemOne’s projects in Angola and Nigeria. More information about the IoT Connectivity that we provide to SystemOne can be found here.
In a nutshell, we are bringing optimised IoT Connectivity wherever it is needed across 1100+ network connections from over 650+ unique mobile operators in more than 200+ countries and territories.
IoT Connectivity and Digital Healthcare - Use Cases
Our IoT Connectivity experts have recently put together this paper “Delivering better care and proactive medical services” which outlines various healthcare IoT Connectivity user cases. These include:
Remote Care and IoT Connectivity
This is the poster child for IoT Connectivity enabled healthcare with examples across the world of deployments in developing economies where medical centers don’t exist. Video appointments with medical professionals who are located elsewhere are enabled by IoT Connectivity.
Emergency and Blue Light Services, and IoT Connectivity
These days first responders use a growing array of devices that require IoT Connectivity for the transmission and reception of key medical information.
Meanwhile emergency vehicles are set to become self-contained networks.
Cells on Wheels, or COWs, are likely to be key to the effective delivery of emergency healthcare in the field. Such COWs will use cells to connect to the macro network, while allowing devices to connect locally. Ambulances will transport their own cells, for IoT Connectivity to macro networks.
While that sounds futuristic, we can also consider the growing diversity of devices that can be used for diagnosis and reporting in the field – many of which will need IoT Connectivity, whether to a captive mobile cell or to one on the macro network directly. Vehicles will be equipped with digital devices that will need connectivity to transfer data.
Medical Logistic, Supply Chains and IoT Connectivity
Tracking supplies and equipment through the supply chain is important across many sectors. But if a shipment of bananas decays through delays or problems with storage while in transit, the only cost is money. If, on the other hand, a consignment of vaccines is rendered ineffective because of a failure to maintain them at the right temperature, lives are at stake.
So, the remote monitoring of medical supplies during transit and once they reach their destinations is of critical importance. We need to know their condition, location, status and more to ensure effective outcomes in the supply chain.
Patient Monitoring
There is huge pressure to reduce the time patients spend in hospital and to move care out into the community. Spells in hospital cost money, while outpatients can continue to enjoy the benefits of living in their own homes. So, devices that can capture diagnostic data from patients – and, crucially, send that data using IoT Connectivity to monitoring systems – are becoming increasingly important.
We can expect this sector to soar in the coming years, driven by both public and private healthcare providers – and in both developed and emerging economies alike.
Data Collection - Disease Tracking and Management and IoT Connectivity
As recent history has shown, tracking the progress and course of a disease – novel or otherwise – is essential for designing a strategy to stem its flow. This requires a clear understanding of infection levels, rates of change and the collection of other data points.
This needs to be undertaken as widely as possible as often, health agencies and NGOs need to go deep into the field. This may take them into remote places beyond the reach of infrastructure, but often within range of cellular connections that enable IoT Connectivity.
Remote or otherwise, the efficient collection of data – and distribution of test results – is rendered much more efficient by the use of wireless cellular connectivity, via embedded capabilities or via specialised routers, and IoT SIMs. Mobile is key to helping governments, agencies and NGOs work to track diseases and stop them spreading.
Telecom26 and IoT Connectivity
Telecom26 provides solutions to support any IoT healthcare application, from traditional SIMs with global coverage, eSIMs for integration with specialised devices, routers to provide local and macro connectivity, all the way to complete private cellular networks that can be assembled quickly, and which can meet the needs of all stakeholders. Whatever your requirement, we can help.
Telecom26 – just what the Doctor ordered
For more information about how our IoT Connectivity service is being used for digital healthcare programmes please and to download our paper “Delivering better care and proactive medical services” which outlines various healthcare IoT Connectivity user cases please click here.
And to learn more about how Telecom26 can help provide your organisation with IoT Connectivity as well as other services for all your other global connectivity needs, please Get In Touch.
And, of course, we’ll be at the next global must-attend event of the year, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 28 Feb - 3 March in Hall 7, Stand 7G10 if you’d like to meet up in-person to discuss your IoT Connectivity and other connectivity needs, please contact us.
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