Key result
Medical cyber-physical systems fuse IoMT data to automate closed-loop control and improve patient safety.
Why the study?
The expansion of the Internet-of-Medical-Things has inundated clinicians with superfluous information leading to burnout and alarm fatigue, highlighting challenges in designing safe, effective, and trustworthy Medical Cyber-Physical Systems.
Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) can leverage IoMT infrastructure to provide actionable information, detect device failures, and improve patient safety, though significant design challenges remain.
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Supports safer monitoring via automated systems; leaves open addressing design challenges in clinical validation studies.
The Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) is a network of connected medical devices, hardware infrastructure, and software platforms used to connect healthcare information technology. While the IoMT has expanded access to real-time health information, a side-effect has been inundating clinicians with excessive amounts of information - some of which is critical - but the vast majority is superfluous. This has led to clinician burnout, alarm fatigue, and skepticism when adopting new technologies. Leveraging the IoMT infrastructure, Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) seek to address these issues by providing more actionable information, detecting device failures, and improving patient safety and treatment effectiveness. MCPS can provide an effective summary of patient state by fusing data from multiple physiological monitoring devices. Furthermore, MCPS can utilize patient physiology represented as a model to provide automatic closed-loop control of patient treatment, which does not require clinician intervention, under known safe conditions. The need to design such MCPS/IoMT systems that are safe, effective, trustworthy, and helpful to clinicians has presented numerous challenges. In this paper, we discuss the challenges in developing MCPS/IoMT, some of our work in addressing them, and several open research issues.
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Watson et al. (2022) conducted a review in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Medical-Things. Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) was evaluated. Medical Cyber-Physical Systems leverage IoMT infrastructure to fuse data from multiple devices, providing actionable information and automatic closed-loop control to improve patient safety.
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